I've long been a critic of Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) arbitrary 140-character limit that it imposes on tweets. The company has been wrestling with this idea for over a year, following CEO Jack Dorsey's ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Many Twitter users — and more importantly, the billions more who don't use Twitter — feel constrained by the company's somewhat archaic 140- And there's the character limit imposed by ...

Reports of the demise of Twitter's 140-character limit have been greatly exaggerated, according to the company's CEO. "It's staying," Jack Dorsey, Twitter's CEO and co-founder, said in an interview ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MEDIA GENERAL) – Everybody’s fighting to replace your email with faster, more efficient messaging. Facebook Messenger has expanded over the last year and now Twitter is trying to up its ...

Twitter will soon stop counting photos and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a person familiar with the matter. The change could happen in the next two weeks, said the person ...

It's now possible to squeeze in a few extra characters on Twitter. Beginning now, usernames will no longer count toward the service's 140-character limit, Twitter announced. The change also means that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Twitter appears ready to loosen its decade-old restriction on the length of messages in a bid to make its service more appealing to a wider audience accustomed to the greater ...

Twitter today improved its service a little bit by cutting @replies from the character limit. Moving forward, when people reply to an individual or to a group, the @username(s) will not count toward ...

NEW YORK - Many Twitter users - and more importantly, the billions more who don't use Twitter - feel constrained by the company's somewhat archaic 140- Whoops! That's what happens when you hit the ...

Now you can really vent next time you want to say something privately on Twitter. The company has removed the 140-character limit for its direct messaging tool, in a move that could increase its ...

The social network now allows users to chat privately without feeling constrained by a space limit. Blabbermouths, however, will get cut off at 10,000 characters. Terry writes about social networking ...

NEW YORK— Many Twitter users— and more importantly, the billions more who don’t use Twitter— feel constrained by the company’s somewhat archaic 140- Whoops! That’s what happens when you hit the ...