Twitter's 140 character limit — time to ditch it?

NEW YORK (AP) — Many Twitter users — and more importantly, the billions more who don't use Twitter — feel constrained by the company's somewhat archaic 140-

The limit was created so tweets would fit in a single text message, back when people used Twitter that way.

[...] most people now use Twitter through its mobile app, where there isn't the same technical constraint.

[...] Twitter users already employ creative ways to get around it.

CEO Jack Dorsey, in such a screenshot that he tweeted in January, appeared amused by the fact that people — not to be constrained — are finding creative workarounds such as the text block photos.

Dorsey called the limit a "beautiful constraint" that inspires creativity, brevity and a "sense of speed."

[...] a news report this week, citing unnamed people, said the company was planning to stop counting Web links and photos in the 140 characters, a move that would further erode that limit.