Will Twitter eliminate its 140-character post limit?

March 2015

Dave Winer has wanted to Twitter to remove the 140-character barrier for a long while now. I can't recall anyone else expressing this sentiment for so long. I simply have not noticed a lot of outrage about the 140-char limit over the past couple years.

Dave made a couple posts recently:

• Mar 15 - A Medium-size hole in Twitter
• Mar 16 - When will the 140-char wall come down?

It seems that Twitter ceases to be Twitter if it allows text posts of any size.

What would the UI/UX be if Twitter removed its 140-char limit. Would the entire post appear in the feed, or would only a snippet be displayed along with a "read more" type of link?

What would users think about this? At the moment, users can read all the content by viewing only the stream or feed of posts. Will users want to click "read more" links?

The 140-char limit can be circumvented by writing the lengthy post elsewhere, say at Blogger, Medium, Tumblr, Wordpress, Ghost, one's own domain, etc., and then posting a link