If you’ve checked your Direct Messages today, you may have
noticed that something’s missing: the limitation of 140 characters.
You can now
chat on (and on) in a single Direct Message, and likely still have some
characters left over.
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. Each of the hundreds of millions of Tweets sent across
Twitter every day is an opportunity for people to spark a conversation about
what’s happening in your world. That’s why Twitter made a number of changes to
Direct Messages over the last few months. Today’s change is another big step
towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun.
You may be wondering what this means for the public side of
Twitter. In a word, nothing. Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they
are today, rich with commentary as well as photos, videos, links, Vines, gifs,
and emoji. So, start working on those sonnets.
Twitter will begin rolling out this change today across our Android and iOS apps, on twitter.com,TweetDeck,
and Twitter for
Mac. It will continue to roll out worldwide over the next few weeks.
If you can’t wait to try out longer Direct Messages, be sure you’re using the
latest versions of our apps so you get the update right away.
Sending and
receiving Direct Messages via SMS will still be limited.
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