It's these things that bumped us out elsewhere once we hit the limits of the DM, and Twitter is having no more of it-because it can't afford to. Anyone who's tried to stick out a real conversation in a DM knows the utter pain of stilted responses that come from continually hitting enter, enter, enter. Brevity has always been an essential part of Twitter, but the confines of a 140-character tweet expand with the context and rolling conversation of Twitter. Until now, DMs were quick chatter, like Twitter itself in many ways. The delightful group DM is another great use of the feature, though it's much more of a quick roundtable than a real multi-person conversation. Before, the short-form private chat was useful, but incredibly limited: You might ping a friend, but if the conversation evolved into anything more significant than swapping links or quick comments, you'd move to email, or iMessage, WhatsApp, or (gasp!) Facebook's Messenger. The point is: the DM just became a legitimate messaging application. Paul Ford's ' What Is Code?' is shorter than that (ha ha, no, it's not). In fact, the short story ' The Little Match Girl' is much, much shorter than that. It's so long I can't even remember what the beginning said. To give you an idea of how massive that is: A seven-page longread I'm currently working on in Google Docs is 13,445 characters. That's right: The humble, minimalist, to-the-point DM is moving on up to the messaging big leagues. In what's only one of Twitter's many updates this week, the platform announced that it will be increasing Direct Message character count from 140 to-get ready for this-10,000.

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