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On Thursday Twitter, Micro-blogging platform, announced the increase of direct message (DM) limit to 10,000 characters facilitating users to send longer private messages. The existing character limit is 140.

Twitter company said in a statement that, “Twitter has eliminated the 140-character limit for DM, and users can now exchange messages privately of up to 10,000 characters, with the idea being that direct messages should seem limitless. Twitter aims to improve users’ messaging experience to give them the real estate to express themselves more freely and getting rid of the 140 character limit is just another step in that direction.”

Earlier in 2015, group direct messages service was launched by the company facilitating the chat between multiple users. The service also allowed any user to message another privately.

This update of longer messages will be given to users across the globe, who long into Twitter.com, Twitter-owned-and-operated applications and TweetDeck. According to the company, it will support both reading and writing lengthy direct messages for Android, Twitter for Mac and TweetDeck. However, those who use mobile web will not be able to send long DMs, but can only receive them.

-Sumana