The company announced on its developer blog today that starting in July it's removing the 140-character limit on direct messages; the private messages you can send to another Twitter user. The news comes on the same day that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced he was stepping down.
Earlier in 2015, Twitter launched group direct messages, where multiple users could chat at once, and then later let any user message someone else privately. Before that, two people needed to follow each other to have a private conversation. The SMS character limit is 160, which gave you 140 for your tweet and 20 for your username. That limit is no longer necessary in the age of smartphones and Twitter apps, but the social network has kept it around to encourage you to keep your messages short.
Tweets, the public messages you post to Twitter, have long had a limit of 140 characters (meaning letters, numbers, spaces and special characters like exclamation marks or periods) you can use.
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