Twitter’s most beloved features is set to change. The company is planning to extend its 140 character limit to as many as 10,000, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Twitter’s fans were quick to complain
that such a change, expected to be
announced by the end of March, would
spoil the brevity and speed of the real-
time service.
The character limit that forces users to
pen snappy tweets could give way to the
longer essays found on Facebook. It could
transform Twitter into more of a public
blogging platform rather than one that is
succinct and well-suited to quips and
breaking news headlines.
This person said, however, that Twitter
Inc. is aiming to retain the look and feel
of the user timeline. For tweets that are
longer than 140 characters, users will
have to click and expand to see the rest of
the text. As users write beyond the 140-
character limit, Twitter will signal to
them that they have crossed the threshold
as a way to encourage brevity.
In a tweet on Tuesday after the news
spilled out, co-founder and CEO Jack
Dorsey tweeted a screenshot of text, 1,317
characters with spaces, explaining his
thinking behind the expansion.
“We’ve spent a lot of time observing
what people are doing on Twitter, and
we see them taking screenshots of text
and tweeting it,” Mr. Dorsey wrote.
“Instead, what if that text…was actually
text? Text that could be searched. Text
that could be highlighted. That’s more
utility and power.” Despite the change,
Mr. Dorsey said Twitter will “never lose
that feeling” of speed, creativity and
brevity.
“Despite the lamentations that the
change will alter the spirit of Twitter,
the truth is that users have been
clawing for a longer character limit for
some time. Loyal users often create so-
called tweetstorms where they string a
series of tweets together by replying to
them in numerical succession. Users
have also gone around the character
restriction by attaching screenshots of
longer text to their tweets.
In July 2015, Twitter expanded the 140-
character limit on private messages to
10,000.
Twitter has been doing a bit of soul-
searching to jump-start user growth ever
since the return of Mr. Dorsey as CEO in
July. The debate to increase the character
limit has been in the works since as early
as September.

Do you think that with this new development its going to be more popular than Facebook?


source:- www..ng/2016/01/06/interesting-twitter-to-expand-tweets-from-140-characters-to-10000/

It will definitely help online marketing coys that utilizes the twitter medium