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Twitter to keep 140-character limit

Reports that Twitter was considering allowing longer tweets have not proven true, with the CEO confirming the 140-character format is here to stay.

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Twitter is to keep the 140-character limit for tweets, chief executive Jack Dorsey has announced.

"It's staying. It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity," Dorsey told NBC on Friday when asked whether the limit was staying.

Technology news website Re/code reported in January that Twitter was building a new feature that would allow users to post tweets as long as 10,000 characters.

Twitter never confirmed that it was considering 10,000-character tweets.

A Twitter spokesman on Friday declined to elaborate on Dorsey's comments, other than to say "Jack's comments stand on their own".


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