How Twitter's new blue-line conversations feature is a workaround for the 140-character limit

New Delhi: 140-characters - the biggest limitation on Twitter is also its greatest advantage. To say more within that restriction some users get clever with words, others use SMS lingo or third-party services such as TwitLonger. But all this could soon end as more and more users discover an innovative way for making the best of the new conversations, that are a series of connected tweets displayed on a user's home timeline.

On Twitter web as well as its Andriod and iOS apps the tweets that form part of a conversation are displayed connected by a blue line. This makes conversations much easier to follow right from the timeline itself without having to go to a tweet's permanent URL.

This means that if you have something to say that cannot be contained within the confines of a single tweet, split them up into logical sentences, post the first sentence(s) and then reply to that tweet using the reply button, remove the @mention and then put in the second sentence(s), follow the same procedure for subsequent tweets.

Thereby all your tweets, which previously would have appeared to be unconnected to your followers on their timeline will now be visible as a linked bunch of tweets connected by a blue line making them much easier to comprehend then any of the other methods we had been using for so long.

While this doesn't actually extend the 140-character limit, but Twitter own feature provides us with a clever workaround to be able to use a lot more characters to tell the story of what's happening (Here's an example).