Twitter to increase tweet character limit from 140 to 10000

140 characters is not almost enough to express my outrage that Twitter is raising the character limit to 10,000. He illustrated his point by posting a screenshot of a text consisting of 1,325 characters.

Twitter Inc is building a new feature that will allow users to post tweets as long as 10,000 characters, technology news website Re/code reported on Tuesday.

However Twitter’s character limit has become key to its brand – a fast, sharp way to send thoughts and information.

Twitter declined to comment to SocialTimes on the matter. Recently, the platform added its Twitter Moments feature for highlighting special events.

“It inspires creativity and brevity”. And a sense of speed. “We will never lose that feeling”.

Seriously: Who asked Twitter for more characters? Twitter plans to talk with some of its analytics and measurement partners to prepare them to handle longer tweets beginning later this month, sources say.

People who click on links to tweets in Google search “will now be able to consume branded, (advertiser) promoted content alongside organic Tweets”, wrote Twitter Revenue Product Manager Deepak Rao in a blog post in December about the new test ad program created to appeal to “logged out” users of the service.

Change is a delicate process for Twitter. Attracting new users needs to be one of the company’s top priorities after reporting disappointing user growth at its last earnings call.

The slackened growth caused the company to oust CEO Dick Costolo in June.

That limit was based on the capacity of the original messaging software used, and though frustrating for many, unleashed a tidal wave of ultra-concise commentary across the web. Rather, as Dorsey explained in a tweet, it may simply offer a more streamlined process for embedding content – just as you can now embed an image in a tweet. According to Re/Code, bigger tweets have reduced user engagement in the past and nobody wants that.

“Twitter is an afterthought in social media right now”, Pachter said. If users have more to say, they simply tweet several times.