Twitter: 10,000-character tweets coming soon

Changes are coming to the world’s largest microblogging platform: it appears a true revolution is about to launch on Twitter.
It’s been discussed for months, but in these days the rumors are chasing each other and becoming more insistent: it seems that the standard of 140 characters available for composing individual tweets may soon be surpassed.
Twitter’s main characteristic, since its inception, has been the provision of 140 characters for composing a tweet: maximum brevity to allow for faster dissemination of news and thoughts.
There have been more than a few innovations in recent months, including the activation of private messaging, initially available only between followers and later opened to everyone.
Starting precisely from this point, the apparent solid limit of 140 characters has begun to be challenged: just a few weeks ago, in fact, it was learned that private messages could become more substantial, and therefore less concise, to allow for smoother and more exhaustive communications.
Today, rumors speak of a gradual transition towards 10,000 characters – the current limit available for private messages between users – also for tweets to appear on the timeline.
While on the one hand it will allow for clearer expression of one’s thoughts, on the other hand, a host of users have already expressed their disapproval, stating that this would lead to the loss of Twitter’s very identity.
Therefore, according to recent leaks, the Twitter staff is reportedly working on a very gradual introduction of the new mechanism, for example, allowing longer sentences to be composed but displaying them on the timeline in a particular graphical format: only 140 characters would appear, followed by three dots, indicating the continuation of the tweet.
Those interested in reading the rest of the message, therefore, would only need to click on the dots, effectively “expanding” the tweet.
An ever-increasing number of users, at present, use third-party apps and services to publish statuses longer than 140 characters; otherwise, they resort to images with text or screenshots.
This second solution, in particular, does not allow Twitter to index the content offered, except through any captions added by users.

In light of this renewed and changed communicative will, the Twitter staff has therefore begun to consider the opportunity to provide a larger number of available characters, thus avoiding the use of other expedients that on the one hand worsen internal search and on the other could even redirect to services external to Twitter.
Thus, among the various needs to be met but also encouraged, the work of “extending” tweets towards the 10,000 character limit has indeed begun.