Twitter To Remove The 140 Character Limit For Direct Messaging
Twitter has announced that you will soon be able to send longer messages through the direct messaging system.
It was announced through a post on the developer forum on Thursday that the site plans to remove the 140 character limit on its direct messaging feature in July.
The character limit for regular tweets, which is also at 140, will stay in place.
“You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter,” Sachin Agarwal, Twitter’s product manager for direct messages, wrote in the post on Thursday. “Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today.”
This move is the most recent in a series of significant changes the company has made to direct and change the messaging system over the past year. Twitter introduced group messaging features into the service in January.
This is a great move on Twitter’s front and we look forward to seeing what other changes they have in store.
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