Twitter to expand texts to go beyond 140 character limit

Twitter is working on a new product that will let users post tweets longer than the current 140-character limit to 10000.

The 140-character limit has been a trademark of Twitter since its inception, but expanding it has been a topic of internal debate for several years and has resurfaced since Jack Dorsey took over the reigns as interim chief executive in recent months, according to multiple sources. 

Cofounder and chief executive Jack Dorsey was quick to defend the move. “We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it. Instead, what if that text . . . were actually text?”