The micro-blogging social network, Twitter have officially removed the 140 character limit on direct messages (DM's). This removal will allow for user to send unlimited amount of messages one time, instead of the 140 character the website was known to do.
Announcing the new change, the site says,
While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter
The changes is also being rolled out for for Twitter for iOS and Android, TweetDeck and Twitter for Mac as well as Twitter.com. Though Twitter users who still uses text messages to send their DM's will have this limit, as this is their network configuration, rather than Twitter itself.
Also Twitter confirmed that this will be only on the DMs, and nothing will change about the public tweets 140 characters, since it is the selling point of the service.
Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today, rich with commentary as well as photos, videos, links, Vines, gifs, and emoji,” the company wrote in its post announcing the change. “So, start working on those sonnets.