In what can be considered good news, Twitter officially announced on Wednesday that it has removed the character limit for Direct Messages on the micro-blogging website.
The company said in a statement that “Twitter has eliminated the 140-character limit for DM, and users can now exchange messages privately of up to 10,000 characters, with the idea being that direct messages should seem limitless.”
"If you’ve checked your Direct Messages today, you may have noticed that something’s missing: the limitation of 140 characters. You can now chat on (and on) in a single Direct Message, and likely still have some characters left over," Sachin Agarwal, a Twitter product manager wrote.
Besides Twitter, this also applies to Tweet deck and other Twitter owned-and-operated applications.
Agarwal told The Wall Street Journal that “there hasn't been a change in philosophy” and that Twitter wants public tweets and direct messages to exist in harmony.
Mohar Moghe, a regular twitter user from Pune and a student of communication and journalism supports the move. "Earlier you had to send multiple Direct Messages on Twitter, and if the same person was available on Facebook Messenger, then my priority would be the latter,” he says.
The word limit of a tweet still remains at 140 characters.