The leadership of the microblogging service Twitter has decided to remove the limit on the number of characters. True innovation will affect only private messages. Regular tweets will remain the same length to 140 characters.
Twitter will remove the restriction to 140 characters in private messages, said project Manager Direct Messages in Twitter Sachin Agarwal. It is known that the limit for personal messages will be 10 000 characters. According to reports, the innovation will come into force in July this year.
The change only applies to personal messages that are not visible to anyone except the two parties to the correspondence. “You may be wondering what this means for public Twitter side. Nothing! The tweets will remain the same length in 140 characters”, — stated in the message of Sachin Agarwal on the developers website. Innovation will also affect the web version, and mobile apps Twitter.
Twitter was founded in 2006. The company’s main product is a social network for public exchange of short messages containing up to 140 characters. In total on Twitter more than 500 million registered users.
April 7, the service launched a feature that allows you to comment on additional 116 marks post which the user retinol and posted on your page. This service is available in the web version and the iOS app. In the near future, the option will become available for the owners of Android-devices.
