Twitter recently proposed the idea of letting users tweet with an unlimited number of characters, however, there is a reason a character limit exists.

Currently, tweets have a 140-character limit, preventing people from tweeting a whole story in one tweet.  It makes a user’s feed easier to read because people’s thoughts are short and straight to the point.

Of course, it is often difficult to form ones thoughts in a short 140 characters, but that is the whole idea of Twitter. The limit helps Twitter users to keep from rambling and give readers a taste of the information, rather than a whole story. If Twitter users want to write their whole life story out, there is other social media for that, such as Facebook or blogs.

“The whole point of Twitter is to write a short thought. If Twitter didn’t have a character limit, I don’t think I would go over 140 characters anyways. I also don’t want to read other people’s long tweets,” Jillian Baffa, freshman and Twitter user, said.

There’s still a chance the long-form feature may never make it to consumers, according to  Kurt Wagner on Recode, the tech news, reviews and analysis website in which the proposal was first announced.

“The question is whether or not a long-form option would actually increase Twitter’s audience.[Exceeding the character limit] might encourage publishers to share directly to Twitter more often, but long-form publishing on other platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn is typically more of a power feature,” Wagner said.

The 140-character tweet has always been a trademark of Twitter, so it doesn’t make sense to change it now. Although the change might help to broaden the audience, the purpose of Twitter is to be short and not long-form.

Twitter’s recent proposal will give users the space to share more information than what is wanted from others. The character limit may seem strict, but if someone can’t condense what they need to say in that limit, then it is too much in the first place. Twitter should stay with its 140-character limit and allow tweets to stay how they are – short and sweet.