The website enforces it, but it's not enforced when using the Twitter
REST API.  Are there any plans to enforce this?  If so, what would be
the expected error code returned if a message longer than 140 is sent
in the request?

On Mar 3, 1:30 pm, TjL <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Our system may allow for DMs of longer than 140 characters, but I
> > don't know if we'll support that in perpetuity. Hence, what's
> > documented.
>
> The website just recently (IIRC) started to enforce the 140 characters
> rule in the past week or so. Before that it was possible to send
> longer DMs even though the counter was below 0.
>
> TjL

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