Jack Dorsey's team is currently testing the new functionality named "Over 140" characters (Beyond 140) and which is intended to expand the number of users, particularly for business communication.
AFP
Trills or tweets of 140 characters still appear, but those with a larger -up to 10,000 characters-can be seen in its entirety only to click on the text indicates Re / Code, citing unnamed sources.
This tool to publish long texts could be launched at the end of the first quarter of 2016.
Twitter also works on any problems that may occur to users, such as how to avoid spam (unwanted messages) and put limits on referrals to other service users, says the publication.
Rule 140 characters was established in 2006 in the early days of Twitter, when it was essentially a service through SMS text messages.
Subsequent decisions have lightened the norm, as the introduction of hypertext links, very long giblets, which can be reduced to less than a dozen characters.
In the middle of last year Twitter had already removed the limit of 140 characters in private messages.
There is also the possibility to publish longer texts on Twitter loading a screenshot of these.