Why does twitter limit the length of messages and tweets?

[walking through life]

Why does twitter limit the length of messages and tweets? Why can't you write a message and actually say what you want cause it only lets you say a few words? And is there a way around this to write more in a message?

[Mrunal]

yes there is a firefox addon to write more than the word limit.
i think the word limit is there so it can be viewed via SMS on mobiles because SMs have word limit of about 140 words i think.

[Vadim]

They just want their API useful for developers .... I use http://feald.com tools to get more followers

[twitter expert]

Twitter is based on micro-blogging platform. You can send the messages via text messaging(mobile use 140 char), Instant messaging,digital audio and web.

This is the primary reason why twitter has limitations of length of message. Additionally Tweets are made available in real-time while traditional blogs doesn't support this awesome feature.

140 char is way good ,if you know to use words effectively. No body wants to read heck loads of crap on a blog- all the micro blogging services are aimed for particular topics, share news and useful info.

So suggest you to make wise use of Twitter and enjoy. And don get crazy for a work around to write more messages, when you can simply tweet all day--break apart your messages ;-)

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[toocrazy]

SMS limitation. if you want to send a longer message, go to twitlonger.com

[Bobby]

Not quite sure never really though about it! Maybe there is a way to get around it who knows. If you really want to see take a look at http://twitter.trafficvault.com it is an article i found it talks about a lot of different aspects of twitter.