Twitter sticks to current limit for number of characters in tweets

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced that there will be no new limit on the number of characters in tweets. At the beginning of this year, there were rumors that the platform was planning such a change, but the number of characters now remains at 140.

Variety reports that Dorsey debunked the rumors in an interview with American television channel NBC on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Twitter. He explained that the current limit is a ‘good one’, which makes it possible to send succinct messages. He goes against his own tweet from January, in which he questioned the 140-character limit.

Partly because of this, rumors arose that it would become possible at the end of this month to compose tweets with up to ten thousand characters. It was not inconceivable that Twitter would make this decision, because the company previously removed the character limit from personal messages. Dorsey gave no further explanation about the decision not to make a change.

It remains unclear what he meant with his tweet from January. In it he discussed, among other things, the possibility of making text searchable on Twitter and he also mentioned highlighting text passages. One of the most recent changes to the service is showing the ‘best’ tweets at the top, depending on the user’s choice.