Twitter about to increase character limit to 10,000?

Microblogging site Twitter could be about to remove its character limit.

While calling it a beautiful constraint chief executive Jack Dorsey said the site was not shy about giving users more power.

In a screenshot of text he said:

We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it.
Instead, what if text was actual text.., was actual text? text that could be searched. Text that could be highlited. That’s more utility and power.

Twitter’s strength is in its live aspect, the conversation and how instant it is. It has acknowledged this and says whatever happens it will keep that aspect in place.

Re/Code, which has proffered the 10,000 character possibility, has written about some options it might explore like still displaying up to 140 characters but having the ability to expand the tweet.

Could Twitter be looking at a version of Facebook’s Instant Articles? Mind you that has been hamstrung by the fact that beta publishers have not been too thrilled by how much they offset from lack of inbound traffic.

Still remains to be seen but Twitter has always felt great as a reference point and its quality in conversation and not a place where one actually sits and reads articles.

What do you think of Twitter becoming less instant and more grown folk? Will you like it more or less? Will it chase the young people away?