[twitter-dev] Character limits on Direct Messages

2010-08-29 Thread Orian Marx (@orian)
It would appear that today Twitter began enforcing a 140 character
limit on DMs. To my knowledge their was never a limit enforced before,
and even Twitter.com would show up to 255 characters of a DM. Some
Twitter clients, including mine, supported 140 char DMs and now I'm
seeing people really upset that they can't send longer messages any
more.

To me this was a significant change and should have been announced to
the developer community prior to being made.

-Orian

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Re: [twitter-dev] Character limits on Direct Messages

2010-08-29 Thread Dustin Shea

I had always been under the impression that everything had a 140 character 
limit.

-Dustin

On 8/29/2010 9:20 PM, Orian Marx (@orian) wrote:

It would appear that today Twitter began enforcing a 140 character
limit on DMs. To my knowledge their was never a limit enforced before,
and even Twitter.com would show up to 255 characters of a DM. Some
Twitter clients, including mine, supported140 char DMs and now I'm
seeing people really upset that they can't send longer messages any
more.

To me this was a significant change and should have been announced to
the developer community prior to being made.

-Orian



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