Twitter to bump up character limit on Direct Messages to 10,000

In the latest update announcement for Twitter, the company has said it's removing the 140 character limit on Direct Messages (DMs) and bumping it up to 10,000!

This could only mean Twitter is very aware of how efficient it's public display system is and how ridiculous it's DMs are for conversation. Sure, you can ping a friend in a few quick phrases, but what if you're on the Twitter app and want to have a private converation with them. Limiting your babble to 140 character bites can be frustrating, which is why, as far as messaging apps go, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Kik are the more popular options. But that could all change now. 

To give you an idea of what 10,000 characters looks like, our Live Blog of the Apple WWDC 2015 is 11,423 characters, and that event went on for over two hours!.


Twitter has brought a lot of new changes in the past like letting you buy products off your feed, letting you battle trolls and enabling quote tweets. This latest one solidifies the view:  Twitter wants you to stay in their app for everything, much like Facebook launching their Instant News Articles feature. Some might say that removing the 140 character limit, even for DMs, is changing what Twitter is at its core. And to them i say, maybe you're right. But is that really a bad thing? You can't be spammed, because you're most likely only going to get DMs from your friends, whom you probably don't mind talking to anyway. So why not do it effciciently without switching apps? What's there to lose?

The announcement has been made on the Twitter Developer forum and will be officially rolled out in July.