Are Tweeps ready for a change? Twitter plans to expand 140-character limit

Published October 1st, 2015 - 02:12 GMT
The social media giant faced its slowest user growth this quarter since the company went public in 2013.
The social media giant faced its slowest user growth this quarter since the company went public in 2013.

Appeasing critics of the 140-character limit, Twitter has indicated it has plans to expand the format and allow more long-form uses of the social media platform, Reuters reported.

The social media giant is also looking into the ways characters are measured on the site and discussing changes, such as excluding links and mentions from the count.

Twitter executives are looking into ways to gain more customers after second-quarter reports said it faced the slowest user growth since it became a public company in 2013, according to Reuters. 

The company has also been without a permanent CEO for three months, but media reports predict Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who has been serving as interim CEO for the past three months, will be named soon.

Twitter earlier this year removed the 140-character limit in direct messages. 

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