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People on Twitter can now send that are than 140 characters. Tweets are still restricted to the 140-character but Direct Messages (DMs) can be up to 10,000 characters. DMs are communications sent from one person to . Twitter's Product Manager blogged about the . He wrote: "You can now chat on and on in a Direct Message and likely still have characters left over." He added: "Direct Messages let you have conversations....Tweets…are an for you to spark a conversation about what's happening in your world."

Twitter will make the changes over the next weeks on a country-by-country . The site's co-founder admitted Twitter needed to do better to keep up with its . Twitter currently has about 300 million global users while Facebook has more than 1.4 billion. Facebook has spent a of money on making their messaging services more user-. Twitter has been trying the same throughout this year. It started DMs and let people accept private messages, from people they do not follow.

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