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Twitter announced on Thursday that next month it will remove the 140-character limit for direct messages, but not for regular tweets. The microblogging site made a blog post officially announcing the new policy about virtually unlimited-character tweets to individuals.
The maximum length for regular tweets will remain at 140 characters, according to Time. However, the upper limit for direct messages will be 10,000 characters.
Along with Facebook, Twitter has become a social media giant in the tech sector. Its core service has always been to give users a short and simple way to share information and updates with their followers.
The direct message service is fairly new. It allows Twitter users to send tweets to any individual account holder.
Tech experts believe that Twitter's character and word limit elimination is a response to other social media players, including Facebook and WhatsApp, according to The Next Digit. The bird logo company also recently made a direct message feature available that resembled their group chat.
Some users are not happy campers about the abolishment of the Twitter character limit. They argue that the tweet word limit is a key feature that makes Twitter a unique brand among the competition.
Such fans of the social networking site argue that the basically unlimited tweet for direct messages will affect the overall quality of posts. They will be less precise and polished.
The news of the Twitter character limit ending for individuals' messages happened on the same day that the company's CEO Dick Costolo resigned. Jack Dorsey, the tech company's co-founder, will hold the position until the San Francisco-based company finds a permanent replacement.
Twitter was founded in March 2006. It has over 302 million active users (May 2015), and earned $1.4 billion in revenue last year.
