Twitter direct messages: goodbye to the 140-character limit

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Twitter has officially announced a new feature that will take effect in two weeks, regarding the removal of a limit that has always characterized part of the microblogging platform’s services.
It has, in fact, been decided to eliminate the maximum limit of 140 characters allowed in the exchange of each private message.
The change will be operational starting next July 1st and will therefore allow for more fluid and “substantial” conversations with one’s contacts in private.
There will no longer be a need to skimp on characters, shorten words, or remove spaces and punctuation: people will be able to express themselves more freely.
Although Twitter’s developers and technicians seem to have focused more attention and resources on private messages only relatively recently, it is clear that the platform’s strategy in this regard is changing.
It appears evident that every effort in this phase is being directed towards simplifying communication between users, in such a way as to make exchanges faster and smoother.
After all, the success of applications like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and the like leaves no doubt: users appreciate speed in communication but at the same time the ability to send multimedia elements with just a few clicks.

Probably for these reasons – to avoid losing a slice of active users who might prefer other methods for private communication – Twitter has decided to take a step towards removing character limits that seemed almost immutable elements in the social network’s policy.
At this point, it will be interesting to see if the change is appreciated and to what extent, perhaps hypothesizing a future application of the same approach to the timeline: who knows if sooner or later public tweets will also see the same “opening” to a greater number of characters available.
This hypothesis appears more remote, since Twitter’s very essence is based on the dissemination of short, almost telegraphic tweets.
We will see.