Ebbene sì, ieri sera Twitter ha annunciato nel suo blog ufficiale di aver rimosso il famoso limite di lunghezza dei messaggi, estendendolo a 10000 caratteri. Nei prossimi giorni verranno aggiornate anche le app Twitter di Android e iOS.
I tweet continueranno ad essere limitati ad un massimo di 140 caratteri, proprio come i direct messages inviati da SMS. Il roll-out è iniziato oggi, ma potrebbero volerci circa due settimane prima che abbia effetto in tutto il mondo.
Il cambiamento era già stato preannunciato a inizio giugno, quindi ci sono voluti un paio di mesi per attuarlo.
Ecco comunque il nuovo comunicato sul blog:
If you’ve checked your Direct Messages today, you may have noticed that something’s missing: the limitation of 140 characters. You can now chat on (and on) in a single Direct Message, and likely still have some characters left over.
While Twitter is largely a public experience, Direct Messages let you have private conversations about the memes, news, movements, and events that unfold on Twitter. Each of the hundreds of millions of Tweets sent across Twitter every day is an opportunity for you to spark a conversation about what’s happening in your world. That’s why we’ve made a number of changes to Direct Messages over the last few months. Today’s change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun.
You may be wondering what this means for the public side of Twitter. In a word, nothing. Tweets will continue to be the 140 characters they are today, rich with commentary as well as photos, videos, links, Vines, gifs, and emoji. So, start working on those sonnets.
We’ll begin rolling out this change today across our Android and iOS apps, on twitter.com, TweetDeck, and Twitter for Mac. It will continue to roll out worldwide over the next few weeks. If you can’t wait to try out longer Direct Messages, be sure you’re using the latest versions of our apps so you get the update right away. Sending and receiving Direct Messages via SMS will still be limited.
Con le novità come al solito arrivano anche le scherzose provocazioni (che hanno sempre una certa base di verità), come ad esempio questa.
Anyone who’s sending 10,000 characters in a Twitter DM needs to rethink life.
– Android Police