I am a better, more creative, and funnier writer thanks to Twitter’s 140 character limit. You could type at length, giving grammar its due! Neither will attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or quoted tweets.
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The blog post says that it will allow users to draw renewed attention to certain tweets if “a really good one went unnoticed”. However, these changes are not immediate.
Twitter is also introducing two new changes to how users tweet.
Meanwhile, tweets that begin by mentioning a user, but are not replies to other tweets, will now be visible in all followers’ timelines.
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said: “We’re always going to look for opportunities to make tweets a lot more expressive, and enable people to say what they want to say”.
Appearing on a TV show recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the 140-character limit is “a attractive constraint” and that Twitter “will never lose that feeling”.
When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets. It also sounds like this isn’t the end to Twitter’s character limit tinkering.
The move comes as Twitter’s efforts to increase its user base and engagement have been sputtering, raising questions about its growth trend.
Twitter is set to make some tweaks to the way its services work, but will stick with its strict 140 character message limit.
These usually took away around 23 to 25 characters off your tweet and made it hard to have meaningful conversations on the social network.
The social media giant also wants to make the service simpler for new users.
Another change which has been made is that any new tweet beginning with an (at) name will be seen by all followers.
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In the coming months, it will make changes to simplify Tweets, including what counts toward your 140 characters.
