Twitter is considering doing away with the 140-character limit per tweet, according to the technology publication re/code.
Multiple sources inside the social media company say Twitter is considering upping the limit to as many as 10,000 characters, an increase of about 72-fold.
There's no word on when this increased limit would launch, re/code reports, and it looks like design is still being worked out.
Twitter's user base isn't exactly open to change. Users took to Tweets to fret that if the new behemoth tweets take up too much space in a user's timeline, they will be less likely to scroll and interact with multiple users.
Back when Twitter changed "Favorites" to "Likes," replacing the star icon for a heart, Twitter users expressed frustration en masse and some took to manually tweeting stars at one another.
When re/code broke the 10,000 character limit news, users reacted similarly:
If you need 10,000 characters, please get a blog.
— Winter Classic Ian (@iancmclaren) January 5, 2016
There already is a 10,000 character Twitter. It's called Medium.
— Mitch Goldstein (@mgoldst) January 5, 2016
Twitter is thinking about 10,000 character tweets. They really have no idea what Twitter is, do they?
— Sean Heber (@BigZaphod) January 5, 2016
140 characters is not NEARLY enough to express my outrage that Twitter is raising the character limit to 10,000.
— Brian Phillips (@runofplay) January 5, 2016An official Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on plans for the character limit when asked by re/code.
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