Twitter raises the limit from 140 to 10 000 characters for personal messages

As with обещала June , of Twitter users began to take off limit of 140 characters on the length of messages. However, only personal messages.

Restriction lifted for the website twitter.com, mobile Twitter apps for Android and iOS, for TweetDeck and Twitter for Mac. The limit will remain only for personal messages sent by SMS.

The first users of the restriction on the length of messages removed yesterday. The function extended to the whole audience of users in a few weeks. Twitter Special emphasizes that public messages no restrictions removes and is not going to do that.

Removing restrictions to 140 characters - one of the многихизменений, which are made with personal messages in recent months. Among other innovations - support of private group chat up to 20 people; messaging with anyone, even if it is not included in the number of readers; a new button for personal messages in a mobile application.

Twitter has allowed developers of third-party customers two months to test your private messages larger size for this test account opened LongDMBot .

It is clear that Twitter is making a big bet on the development of functional IM, to not lose the audience in competition with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Removing restrictions to 140 characters in this sense is quite logical. Although Twitter users monthly audience of 316 million people, but the social network seriously compete with Facebook, where the audience is 1, 5 billion.

A new limit is set at 10 000 characters. In comparison, Facebook Messenger is a limit of 20 000 characters. It is not too radically, because such long messages is unlikely someone will write in the usual chat.





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