Twitter considering 10k character limit for tweets

Twitter said its emphasis on brevity would never change but that it had been wondering whether people could express themselves easily enough, hurting the service's popularity..

NEW YORK: The days of Twitter Inc limiting messages to 140 characters, a signature of the social network since its launch in 2006, may be numbered. 

Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin a test with a random sample of users allowing them to send tweets that are as long as 280 characters, double the existing cap, in most languages around the world.