Twitter is now allowing for long direct message chats to be sent, ending the old 140 character limit.

Just like tweets, direct messages were limited to 140 characters per message, CNET reports. This meant that chats had to be pretty brief. On Wednesday, Twitter expanded the limits to 10,000 characters for direct messages.

According to The Verge, direct messages with up to 10,000 characters can be sent from desktops, mobile devices and third party services like Tweet Deck. 

Twitter wants to stay competitive with all of the other chat services including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Facebook Messenger allows up to 20,000 characters to be typed in a single message.

"Our users will now have the flexibility to write longer and express themselves in a more natural and comfortable way," said Sachin Agarwal, Twitter's product manager for direct messages.

Twitter announced that it would be expanding the character limit to 10,000 back in June. The upgrade might convince more users to join the social networking site and could please investors who have been disappointed with the stock lately. 

Twitter has a large monthly user count with 316 million people logging onto the service monthly. However, Facebook boasts a huge 1.5 billion monthly user count. If Twitter wants to attract more advertisers, more users would definitely help.

Even Twitter executives have admitted that the service needs to be more engaging and easier to use. Twitter hopes that their new trending event service called Project Lightning will be a success. They also hope NFL fans will log on to view popular football highlights and news during the 2015 season.

Twitter is in the process of finding a new CEO to replace Dick Costolo. Costolo has been temporarily replaced by Jack Dorsey, but the company will need to find a long term replacement for him.

Twitter is focusing on its direct messages. Recently, they added group direct messages and also started allowing any user to direct message anyone privately.