Twitter DM limit removed, letting users send direct messages as long as they like.
Twitter has finally and officially removed the 140-character limit on direct messages, allowing people to send huge, long private messages to one another.Twitter, which is mostly about letting the world know your thoughts in all of 140 characters — this was once the limit for short messages — also has a relatively unexplored side where people chat away from the sight of trolls.SOCIAL NETWORKING, BUT MOSTLY ADVERTISING, COMPANY Twitter is slowly making it possible for people to use the direct message option to send an email without actually sending an email.
From today, Twitter is enabling users to send messages with unlimited characters directly to each other through its private-chat function. “Overall, we are trying to create a really great space where people can talk about Twitter content,” said Sachin Agarwal, a Twitter product manager. While there are scores of popular apps that let you chat without any sort of limits or barriers, Twitter comes handy could now handy for long conversations with those who you don’t really know beyond Twitterverse.
Tweets have the same character limit, and that won’t be removed. “While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter,” the site said, announcing the change. Over the past few months, for instance, it has begun curating more content for users in an attempt to organise the chaos, and it intends to double-down on curation with the forthcoming live-events product called Project Lightning. Earlier in 2015, Twitter launched Group Direct Messages, in what the company called moves “to help users connect more easily and directly on Twitter with other users, causes and businesses”. The change is being rolled out to the apps for Android and iOS, TweetDeck and Twitter for Mac as well as Twitter.com. “It will continue to roll out worldwide over the next few weeks,” the company said in a blog post. In its early years, Twitter struggled to figure out how to handle direct messages at the risk of endangering its unique characteristic as a public forum, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking.
The limit of text messages was how Twitter’s limit came into place, so that people could send their updates before the proliferation of smartphones. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and current interim CEO, in particular wasn’t eager to invest in direct messages when he returned to the company to help with product development in 2011. The company began tweaking the long-ignored feature to give it more prominence. while introducing group chats and the ability to send photos, tweets and emoji.