Feel like you just can’t express yourself enough in 140 characters? Traditionally you would have to use a third party service or string together a series of Tweets to get that message across. However Re/code has reported that Twitter is considering to increase the character limit to 10,000 characters as soon as Q1.
The impact (hopefully) won’t have a dramatic impact on the user timeline however. According to the report, the character expansion would display just 140 characters, and with a click/tap users would be able to see the full Tweet in its 10,000 characters of glory. Thanks to rich Twitter cards, Moments and images Twitter has become far more than text in bite sized 140 character updates and this appears to be a less egregious visual change — though a massive intrinsic shift.
Why 10,000 characters? That is the current maximum size of direct messages on Twitter which likely plays a roll. Other networks like Facebook are actually larger and allow for 60,000 characters.
140 characters is not NEARLY enough to express my outrage that Twitter is raising the character limit to 10,000.
— Brian Phillips (@runofplay) January 5, 2016
Would this be welcomed by Twitter users? Likely not. It may not matter however as Twitter needs to do something to boost growth. Twitter did not officially comment on this report but according to Re/code sources, 10,000 Tweets may start showing in your timeline as early as late this month.
For more information see Re/code.
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