Replies: When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count.
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According to Twitter, there is still time for you to tweet in 10,000 characters and its original 140-character limit is here to stay.
Responding to trends in the way tweets are composed, Twitter is changing what counts towards the 140 character limit.
Links now take up to 23 characters of a tweet, limiting the commentary that users can offer when sharing articles or other content.
This was contained in a blog post in which twitter says, ‘we want you to be able to do even more.
“What we want to do is make the Twitter experience for those who use Twitter every single day more dynamic, faster, more interesting”, Twitter’s chief marketing officer Leslie Berland told USA TODAY. “Featuring photos, videos, hashtags, Vines, and more”. More room for words!
In the past few months Twitter added the ability to poll community, react quickly and cleverly with GIFs, and share and enjoy Periscope broadcasts in Tweets.
Twitter, the micro blogging social media network, has announced that it would be relaxing some restrictions on “tweets” to allow users to maximize use of the platform.
These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username.
Elsewhere, Twitter will also be enabling the retweet and quote tweet options for your own tweets.
Another change which has been made is that any new tweet beginning with an (at)name will be seen by all followers. If a user wants a reply to be seen by all the followers, he/she will be able to Retweet it to signal that will be viewed more broadly.
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The full suite of changes, which will be rolled out in the coming months, will mean that images, videos and @names in replies will not contribute towards the 140 limit.
