Once upon a time this sentence would have simply been too long to use in a direct message in Twitter, but now the company says you can take as long as you like to get your point across. 

Twitter announced on Thursday it would scrap the 140-character limit for its direct message feature, switching instead to a lengthier 10,000-character cap.

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“We’ll begin rolling out this change today across our Android and iOS apps, on twitter.com, TweetDeck, and Twitter for Mac. It will continue to roll out worldwide over the next few weeks,” the company announced on its website.

It’s the first time the character limit has been lifted on the micro-blogging website.

“I think that you will definitely see folks being more expressive in general,” product manager for Direct Messages Sachin Agarwal said.

“I think in the past you might have felt constricted by 140 characters and so you had to cut out a word here or there, but now you end up with these longer messages where people are really able to get their point across and do it in a more funny way.”

Twitter has around 300 million users worldwide.