Twitter has officially removed the 140-character limit from Direct Messages.
"If you’ve checked your Direct Messages today, you may have noticed that something’s missing: the limitation of 140 characters," the company revealed in a blog post. "You can now chat on (and on) in a single Direct Message, and likely still have some characters left over."
The announcement for such a change was made back in June, and was initially said to be coming in July, but Twitter has decided to implement the changes today, which expands the character limit from 140 to 10,000. The expansion marks "another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun," but it will not alter the rest of the social platform - actual Tweets will still be limited to 140-characters.
Direct Messaging's new 10,000 character limit is rolling out today to the Android and iOS apps, Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and Twitter for Mac; those eager to DM someone a lengthy message should update to the latest versions of the apps as soon as possible. The rest of the world, meanwhile, can expect to see the changes within the next few weeks.
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