{"id":11998,"date":"2015-08-17T16:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:38:51","slug":"twitter-removes-140-character-limit-from-direct-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/17\/twitter-removes-140-character-limit-from-direct-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Removes 140-Character Limit From Direct Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/08\/12\/twitter-direct-messages-no-character-limit\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2015\/08\/12\/twitter-direct-messages-no-character-limit\/\">\n<p>Twitter today <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2015\/removing-the-140-character-limit-from-direct-messages\">announced a major change<\/a> to the way Direct Messages work on the Twitter platform, removing the 140-character limit that restricted the length of private messages. With the change, Twitter&rsquo;s Direct Message feature is on par with other chat and messaging apps, allowing for unrestricted conversation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Except that, presumably, sending URLs is still restricted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/08\/i-will-return-to-twitter-when.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/08\/i-will-return-to-twitter-when.html\"><p>It was around this time, nearly 3 years ago, that I posted my last tweet. My bet with <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/\">Daniel<\/a> is over whether I will return to Twitter within 5 years. People ask if I&rsquo;ll come back sooner, and if I did, what it would take. I&rsquo;ve often struggled to articulate those conditions, because I think we are seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2015\/07\/ev-on-twitter-third-party-devs.html\">slow but consistent progress<\/a> to unwind the developer-hostile decisions made a few years ago. It may be that in a couple years the environment will be much improved, but there won&rsquo;t be any single decision that &ldquo;fixed&rdquo; it, or it may be that Twitter is doomed to have changing leadership and there will never be any guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>There is one thing, though. There is one change that was made while rolling out the version 1.1 Twitter API: they removed support for unauthenticated RSS feeds of user tweets or timelines. If they reversed that one decision, the next day I would be back on Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2015-08-18): It looks like Twitter has <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/twitter\/2014\/11\/17\/twitter-fixed-bug-kept-sharing-urls-direct-messages\/\">allowed DMs to include URLs<\/a> since December (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mergesort\/status\/633464025716760576\">Joe Fabisevich<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Twitter today announced a major change to the way Direct Messages work on the Twitter platform, removing the 140-character limit that restricted the length of private messages. With the change, Twitter&rsquo;s Direct Message feature is on par with other chat and messaging apps, allowing for unrestricted conversation. 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