Twitter is reportedly planning to abandon its famous 140-character limit and allow tweets up to 10,000 characters long.

据报道，推特计划废除推文140字符的限制，允许字符数最多可达1万。

The proposed 71-times increase in the limit, allowing tweets of roughly 2,000 words in length, would be the latest departure from the origins of Twitter since the social network's co-founder Jack¹ Dorsey returned as chief executive last year.

扩充后的字符数是原来的71倍，这项提议如获实施，则意味着每条推文将最多可以有2000个单词。此举也将成为自联合创始人杰克·多西去年回归CEO职位以来，该社交媒体背离初创原则的最新举措。

While Twitter is beloved by dedicated² users in the media and public eye, it has failed to grow significantly in the last year while its major rivals Facebook and Instagram have stretched ahead.

尽管有不少来自媒体和公众的死忠粉，不过推特去年的业绩并没有显著增长。而其主要竞争对手脸书和INS都领先于它。

According to technology website Re/Code, Twitter plans to introduce the change towards the end of the first quarter of the year. Twitter has not confirmed this.

据科技网站Re/Code报道，推特计划于今年第一季度末推出这项改革。推特尚未对该消息进行确认。

The company has previously³ been reported to be raising the tweet limit above 140-characters, which was chosen when the service launched in 2006 to allow tweets and usernames to be received in a single text message, which had a 160-character limit.

此前已有报道称推特将提升推文字符数至140字符以上。140字符的限制是该公司于2006年创立时提出的。当时之所以要这么做，是为了方便用户在短信中接收推文——每条短信有160字符数的限制。

Users now experience Twitter via smartphone apps, rather than text messages, but the limit has been a defining hallmark of the service, allowing multiple tweets to be read within a timeline. Extending the character limit is unlikely to mean enormous tweets appearing in feeds, however, with messages likely to be condensed to 140 characters and a "read more" option.

现在用户主要通过智能手机应用收发推文，不再是以手机短信的方式。但140字符的限制已经成为推特的标志性功能，用户可以因此在同一时间线浏览多条推文内容。不过，增加字符数后，并不意味着用户看到的都将是超长推文：推文仍将被缩减至140字进行显示，用户可以通过点击“更多内容”按钮，进一步阅读详情。

Still, reports of the move generated a mixed reaction to say the least.

不过，用户对这项改革的看法褒贬不一，或者说，贬大于褒。

If Twitter moves to 10,000 characters, email must move to 140 characters. It's only fair. -- M.G. Siegler

如果推特改成1万字符，那电邮就得改成140字符。这样才公平嘛。-- M·G·西格勒

Even with 10,000 characters I wouldn't be able to articulate all the ways Twitter has pissed off its users in the last twelve months. -- Neil S W Murray

就算给我1万字符，我也罄竹难书推特过去12个月虐待它用户的各项罪行。-- 尼尔·S·W·穆雷

The only time I want to use 10,000 characters on Twitter is to say no to this 5,000 times. -- Caity Kauffman

我唯一能用到1万字符的地方，就是对这项改革说5000个“NO”。-- 凯迪·考夫曼