Twitter officially drops 140-character limit... for direct messages

Twitter users can officially send one another direct messages topping 140 characters starting Wednesday.

Twitter is phasing in the change across Android, iOS and web-based platforms on Wednesday, lasting over the next few weeks. Instead of 140 characters, the social network previously said in June the new character maximum would be 10,000

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"You can now chat on (and on) in a single direct message, and likely still have some characters left over," the company wrote in a blog post published Wednesday.

Twitter also emphasized in the post that while direct messages can now run really, really long, tweets will still be subject to the same 140-character limit they've always been Read more...

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