Company is building a new product for users.
By Dileep Thekkethil
Twitter, the world’s second most visited social media website, is reportedly planning to go beyond its conventional 140 character limit as the company is reportedly set to announce a character limit solution soon.
According to technology website Re/code, the company is building a new product that allow users to put more characters into their tweets without the help of third-party services like OneShot, that post the screenshot of the text instead of text.
Twitter has been running on its traditional 140 character limit for close to a decade and this has been forcing avid writers to tweet multiple times to convey what is on their mind. Ever since the launch of Twitter, people within and outside the company have been wanting an increase in the character limit.
It is believed that the new interim CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has been getting requests within the firm to explore the possibility of adding more characters to tweets, which some believe is one of the ways to grow its user base.
Adding to this, the new Twitter format is also expected to tweak current ways of measuring the character limit. The new character tweak might skip things like links and user handles from the limit.
One senior employee in Twitter was quoted by Re/code saying “People have been very precious at Twitter about what Twitter can be and how much it can be evolved. Having Jack come in and say it’s okay makes all the difference in the world.”
Twitter had on April this year added a new feature called ‘Tweet with comments’, providing users with an option to comment on the tweets that they share. The San Francisco-based company had also excluded the 140 character limit for private messages in June.
The twitter user base has not been registering a substantial increase and the new interim CEO has been critical of the way the company implemented some of the new features. He also expressed the need to reach to more mainstream users and the new more to increase the character limit might help the firm to find new twitters.
This move will also give publishers a chance to tweet text rich content more often via twitter like what they do in other social media websites like Facebook and LinkedIn.