Twitter recently made two major changes this past week, changes that are unrelated but major nonetheless. First off, **** Costolo is stepping down from his post as CEO of Twitter and second, direct messaging limits are being raised from 140 characters to 10,000.
The social media giant recently made the announcement to investors informing them that Costolo will be stepping down effective July 1 with cofounder and chairman, Jack Dorsey, serving as the interim CEO while Twitter’s board searches for a suitable replacement. Costolo had the following to say regarding the matter:
I am tremendously proud of the Twitter team and all that the team has accomplished together during my six years with the Company. We have great leaders who work well together and a clear strategy that informs our objectives and priorities.
In a completely unrelated change, Twitter also announced an upcoming change to the DM character limit as part of a larger move to bolster support and complementary offerings. The direct messaging feature was updated relatively recently with open DMs, which gave users the ability to send messages to other users directly whether they were being followed back or not. Twitter didn’t specify a date in particular for the change but did state that users can expect the change “sometime in July.”
We’ll have to see what path Twitter goes down with all the changes and ultimately how this affects the end users by being patient.
Source: The New York Times, Twitter (Press Release)
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