Twitter keeping 140-character limit on tweets after all - CNET

So much for Twitter being home to the next Great American Novel.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder and CEO, said the San Francisco-based company won't be expanding the potential length of tweets users post on its service. In an interview with NBC's "Today" show, Dorsey said the 140-character limit, which dictates how long people's posts can be, will remain in place despite rumors he was considering a change.

"It's staying," he said. "It's a good constraint for us and it allows for of-the-moment brevity."

That's a seeming about-face from rumors Twitter was considering expanding tweets to 10,000 characters (or about 2,000 words). In January, Dorsey faed those rumors by sending a tweet saying he aimed to respond to a new trend where users were including screenshots of text with their tweets to get around the character limit. What if an image of text "was actually text?" he wrote at the time.