Twitter's Big Shift on Character Limits

You will soon be able to send much longer direct messages on Twitter. The site plans to remove the 140-character limit on its direct messaging feature in July, the company revealed in a post on its developer forum on Thursday. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the character limit would be changing sometime in July but declined to provide more specific timing. The character limit for regular tweets, which is also 140, will remain in place. The move is the latest in a series of major changes the company has made to direct messages over the past year. Twitter introduced group messaging features into the service in January. The network also added an option that allows users to opt-in to receive private messages from anyone else on the service.