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12th August 2015
06:31pm BST

The change is being rolled out across Android, iOS and web-based platforms and will be phased in gradually over the next few weeks - so don't panic if you haven't seen the change yet.
Twitter wrote in a blog post: "You can now chat on (and on) in a single direct message, and likely still have some characters left over."
They did note that character limits for tweets will remain at the concise 140 character limit.
The change comes amid reports that Twitter's user growth has been slow of late as well as news of management upheaval and concern about the site's longevity.Explore more on these topics: