Twitter Is Giving More Room For Tweets: Say Goodbye To 140 Characters

Twitter has been known to be strict in the number of characters that can be posted on its platform. After years of sticking to its method, it is finally eliminating the limit.

Twitter's 140-character posts is its characteristic: something that somehow made Twitter popular, and at the same time unique. Users need to brainstorm tweets before posting, making each post straightforward. But the limit also restrict how users can express their thoughts.

By lifting the limit, Twitter is now relaxing the number to allow users to say more.

However, the limit still applies to text messages and links. Twitter is lifting the limit to only quotes, polls, GIFs, videos and images. These won't anymore reduce those precious characters.

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Previously, Twitter has been considering to limit its character limit to 10,000. But the idea was scrapped. Lifting the limit to about anything beside text messages and links, is seen as a way for Twitter to have a competitive advantage to other social media platforms, but at the same time, keeping its own characteristic in place.

Twitter is likely to worry about the implications of extending its character limit. But as more people tend to engage and share on social media in general, the move seems to be a fair play.

With more characters, users can say more. And more to say should translate to more interaction and appeal. And for that reason, it has been eliminating the limit from one feature to the next.

Originally, Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey said that the 140-character limit was instituted to match the character limit that most phone companies place on text messages, saying it as a "beautiful constraint" that "inspires creativity and brevity."

But as time flies, the method seems to be outdated.

The changes to Twitter's character limit are another in a series it make in order to appeal new users, and to encourage more activity by existing users. Twitter's growth has slowed and the company is under pressure by falling more than 50 percent since 2015.

Whether or not the tweak will boost engagement can't be promised by its users. But it's indeed beneficial and can actually make Twitter more useful.