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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.
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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:
An official Twitter spokesperson declined to comment on plans for the character limit when asked by re/code.
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