Twitter is a social media platform that has long been known as a place for people to give short updates on their life, the news, opinions and so on. The key-word here is short.

Since starting in 2006, tweets have been limited to 140 characters. This restriction was doubled to 280 characters earlier this year.

Even before this increase, however, users had found their own loopholes on the restrictive word count. This came in the form of something known as a Twitter thread.

A Twitter thread is a way for a user to share a lengthy post by breaking it up into several tweets and threading them together by the user replying to the first original tweet, usually in a rapid manner.

The Twitter-verse often uses threads to tell stories, share on-going commentary on current events and even share personal rants. After observing this innovative use of their site, the company has now announced in a blog post that they added a tool to make threading easier. Twitter's Product Manager, Sasank Reddy, said,

"At Twitter, we have a history of studying how people use our service and then creating features to make what they’re doing easier. The Retweet, '@reply', and hashtag are examples of this. A few years ago we noticed people creatively stitching Tweets together to share more information or tell a longer story.. We saw this approach (which we call “threading”) as an innovative way to present a train of thought, made up of connected but individual elements."

Here's how it works: When composing a tweet there will be a plus sign button that will allow you to add multiple tweets to your original one, except keeping them all together, and then tweet the entire thread at once. You'll also be able to add to the thread after it's published with an "add another tweet" button.

Additionally, this will make things easier on users who engage with thread tweeters by having a "show this thread" label.

Some users report already being able to use this new feature while others may still need to update their app to the latest version. Of the active users commenting on the change, the response seems to be mostly positive, now if they'd only give us an edit button...