The network of microblogs Twitter may soon get rid of the limitation of 140 characters imposed on the length of a single message. As the website of Re / code with reference to informed sources, the company is developing a “new product” which allow to publish tweets with no hard limit on the number of characters.
As it will be implemented the new service is still unknown. According to the newspaper, the company was discussing one of the options under which the calculation of the number of characters may be excluded links and images.
Limiting the length of a single message to 140 characters like SMS – a proprietary feature of Twitter, which started work in 2006. With the evolution of the service users are increasingly complaining about the inconvenience of the limit, which forces them to resort to “sokraschalkam” URL-addresses, such as bit.ly or goo.gl, to make tweets shorter. In addition, the severe restriction led to the emergence of such services as OneShot, which allow post longer messages in the form of images rather than text.
And August, Twitter took the 140-character limit imposed by the size of the private messages. Users will be able to share with each other in the “PM” arbitrarily long messages – unless, of course, did not go beyond the new limit of 10,000 characters.
So Twitter tends to be closer to other popular social networks and He is trying to attract a new audience, which is not used to a hard limit on the size of private messages. The messenger Facebook, such as the length of a message is limited to 20 thousand characters.
Source: Re / code
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