This will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward, no more penny-pinching your words to ensure they reach the whole group.
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Twitter officially announced that a tweet’s 140-character limit will no longer be affected by links, media and handles..
Relaxing the 140-character limit, which was set due to mobile phone text messaging constraints in place when Twitter launched in 2006, is expected to encourage more use and sharing of pictures, videos and links.
Twitter users’ @names won’t count against the 140-character limit when you’re making a reply anymore, however, so replies in conversations with multiple people involved should no longer devolve into spit-out single word responses to each other. Yay!
Twitter’s 140-character limit is changing soon.
Twitter is notifying users and developers today so that everything works as it should when the changes are rolled out and the new updates should be available within the coming months. When the new changes are implemented, users will be able to broadcast a reply more widely with the retweet button.
You’ll also be able to retweet and quote your own tweets, if ever you want to share a new reflection or feel it’s not gained enough appreciation (lets face it, we’ve all been there). Now, all tweets that begin with usernames will be seen by everyone, not just that person’s followers. But others have found it too burdensome, posting photos of longer text or launching “tweetstorms” when they want to say something that doesn’t fit small chunks of text.
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For Twitter and its investors, that may not be a good thing, as the troubled social network received another downgrade from a Wall Street analyst, sending shares to an all-time low and giving them more room to moan about Jack Dorsey’s turnaround plan.
