Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: 140-character limit is staying

Variety:

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the service’s iconic 140-character message limit isn’t going away.

On NBC’s “Today” show Friday, Dorsey said the company has no plans to expand the 140-character limit, which dates back to Twitter’s launch in 2006. “It’s staying,” he said. “It’s a good constraint for us, and… it allows for of-the-moment for everything.”

Interesting. I can’t remember the source, but seems to me Jack Dorsey made a comment last month (about the time Twitter sent out their shareholders letter) about improving the situation that requires people to take screen shots of text to share thoughts longer than 140 characters. Was that just lip service?

UPDATE: From an op-ed piece for 9to5Mac by Zac Hall:

In the past, however, Dorsey has tweeted screenshots of text walls from Apple’s Notes app to communicate a lengthier message that wouldn’t fit in 140 characters, but text shots present their own problems like lack of being found in search and being easily translated in other languages.

Dorsey’s comments today do not rule out the possibility of Twitter adding a new attachment card for passages of text, in the same way you can add polls or photo galleries to tweets today.

Yup, that was it. It’d be nice if Twitter gave us an official mechanism to make longer (but still searchable) tweet attachments.