Do you ever feel like you need just a few more characters? And no matter how hard you try, turning sentences into txt speak supplanting “ands” with an ampersand, still doesn’t get you to within your 140 character limit?

Well fear not. That could all be about to change. Tweetdeck has come up with a way of pushing beyond the 140 character limit and its called Deck.ly.

According to the FT’s Techhub blog Tweetdeck founder Iain Dodsworth says that users have been “very vocal” in demanding a bigger than 140 character limit.

The new 140 plus feature means that those using Tweetdeck’s excellent desktop app, its new Chrome browser and mobile apps will be able to read these longer tweets without an issue while others will be able to see truncated Deck.ly posts in full via links to a dedicated website..

Tweetdeck will begin rolling software updates out on Monday after final testing.

“From day one [of Tweetdeck], it was one of the things almost everyone was screaming about. I’ve been very protective of the fact that [140 characters] is a platform limitation of the services we sit on top of and we have to have an element of respect for that. Going around that core tenet of Twitter could be a sensitive move. We don’t know how they feel about it. But we are tailoring to an audience that wants functionality the general user of Twitter doesn’t care about,” says Dodsworth.

The hope is that the launch of Deck.ly will attract a slew of new users to Tweetdeck and put pressure on rivals.

For many who share links and a line of text maybe 140 characters is enough, but just occasionally (and sometimes) more a few more characters really would come in handy.