Soon You Can Slide Into Twitter DMs, Leave Long-Winded Messages

Twitter announced recently that the 140-character limit will be lifted in July for DMs, but still in place for tweets.

To tweet, you still need to fit a message into 140 characters, but Twitter is soon allowing users to leave direct messages as long as they feel.

Twitter announced recently that the 140-character limit will be lifted in July for DMs, but still in place for tweets.

Sachin Agarwal, product manager of direct messages at Twitter, blogged about this decision:

We’ve done a lot to improve Direct Messages over the past year and have much more exciting work on the horizon.

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