Twitter set to expand length of messages
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Twitter appears set to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater freedom offered by Facebook and other forums.
CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey telegraphed Twitter鈥檚 intentions in a tweet posted on Tuesday after the technology news site Re/Code reported the company is exploring increasing its limits on text from 140 characters to as many as 10,000.
Dorsey didn鈥檛 directly address the Re/Code report that cited unnamed people, but he made it clear that Twitter isn鈥檛 wedded to the 140-character limit. He illustrated his point by posting a screenshot of a text consisting of 1,325 characters.
If Twitter were to allow tweets to span 10,000 characters, it could produce 1,700-word dissertations, based on the size of Dorsey鈥檚 extended post. San Francisco-based Twitter Inc declined to comment on its plans.
In his message, Dorsey wrote that Twitter has already noticed that many of its roughly 300 million users already have been including screenshots of lengthy texts in their tweets. He indicated Twitter is examining ways to give people more room to express themselves without polluting it with gasbags.
Imposing some restraint 鈥渋nspires creativity and brevity. And a sense of speed. We will never lose that feeling鈥, Dorsey pledged.
Analysts said Dorsey is probably trying to avoid a backlash among long-time Twitter users who consider the 140-character tweeting limit sacred. But, he needs to respond to company shareholders pining for a bigger audience that would generate more advertising revenue.
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