Twitter said to consider insane 10000 character limit

According to Recode, Twitter is considering allowing up to 10,000 characters for tweets, although you’d only see it by expanding the usual, compact tweet.

Re/code says the company already allows 10,000 characters in a commercial product called Direct Messages, so the technology is no longer a barrier.

The current 140-character restriction was introduced in Twitter’s early days, in a similar way to short text messages, and while Mr Dorsey praised it as a ” attractive constraint” he noted that users already find ways to cram more into a tweet by posting images with more words.

The potential character-limit expansion prompted individuals to consider the impact that longer tweets would have on the nature of Twitter and its users.

Many Twitter fans love the concision forced by the current limit, which requires a discipline lacking in more verbose outposts on the Internet.

News of this change comes as Twitter announced poor user growth and a weak forecast in the third quarter, causing shares to fall more than 2 percent to $22.04, well below its initial public offering price of $25, reported USA Today. “And a sense of speed”, he said.

We’re not sure why Twitter feels the need to make the move at this point, though.

Twitter has been experimenting under Dorsey to make the service more engaging. “It’s also possible the character limit could fluctuate before it rolls out the final product, which people inside Twitter refer to as ‘Beyond 140′”. The supposed implementation of the feature will involve placing a button that lets you know there is more content within a Tweet, and will presumably invite you to click to expand it. That should create a nice balance between brevity and richness of content, so those who want more get more, and those who don’t, well, don’t.

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey took to Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) Tuesday afternoon to neither confirm nor deny the report.

Many artists, such as deadmau5, use Twitter far more than any other platform.

Dorsey launched Twitter in 2006 with a strict 140-character limit so that it could be used via text messages, which had a 160-character limit at the time.

Speculation – by way of tweets – was rampant on Tuesday. “If people start using the service more frequently, other users will come join in, too”.