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Twitter ends 140-character limit for direct messages; regular tweets unchanged

You're typing a message on Twitter and see your character limit dwindling. Before you know it you've sent two messages and haven't even reached the end of your story.

Twitter understands your frustration. So, the social media site has decided to do away with the character restriction.

Twitter announced on Thursday that next month it will remove the 140-character limit for direct messages, but not for regular tweets. The microblogging site made a blog post officially announcing the new policy about virtually unlimited-character tweets to individuals.

The maximum length for regular tweets will remain at 140 characters. However, the upper limit for direct messages will be 10,000 characters.