Twitter to expand the DM character limit from 140 to 10,000<article>
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If you ever wanted to Twitter DM the entirety of
War & Peace to a fellow Tolstoy enthusiast, you’ll soon be able to do it in fewer messages. </p><p>
On Wednesday
Twitter announced that starting in July users will be able to send private direct messages to each other that are up to 10,000 characters long. The current limit is 140 characters, exactly the same as public tweets. Could this mean that public tweets might soon get overly verbose too? Not a chance, according to Twitter.</p><p>
“You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter. Nothing! Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today,” wrote Sachin Agarwal, Twitter’s DM product manager.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2934974/twitter-to-expand-the-dm-character-limit-from-140-to-10000.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter to expand the DM character limit from 140 to 10,000
