Will Twitter remove its 140-character limit?

The social network, which restricts its users to posting messages no longer than 140 characters, is now preparing to relax that limit. There are already products like OneShot that users can use to tweet out blocks of text, but those are more like images and not actual texts published on Twitter.

Twitter’s interim CEO, Jack Dorsey – rumored to soon be permanently in the chief executive’s suite – is determined to shake things up and expand Twitter’s user base, according to media reports.

One of the major challenges of Twitter is, deciding on how much more they could stretch the limit and how that longer tweets should look, as this could change the so-called, Twitter experience. That’s what sets Twitter apart from other social apps, Facebook in particular, where friends can ramble on for as long as they’d like, sometimes consuming the entire screen with a single post. The 140 character limit is what defines a tweet; it’s sacred.

The blogs have been going wild this week as news broke about Twitter considering dropping the 140-character length restriction.

For example, links and user handles may no longer count against the limit.

Alternatively, it could also be a product which is separate from the Twitter app like the Periscope. The number isn’t a small one, but in the digital rat race where social and messaging apps are speeding to reach a billion or more users, Twitter is lagging way behind. For a fact, it may just attract publishers to share directly on Twitter.

A few people say increasing the room to tweet takes away what makes Twitter unique. The company might mix things up, but it is positive on the idea that tweaking its character limit would certainly help a lot for their improvement. So those with more to say could write their wordy essays and publish them on Twitter. Twitter shares were up 1.1 percent at $25.53 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.