Actually, I’d like to see URLs added to this list of items that don’t impact the 140 character limit, but whatever.
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Following earlier rumours that Twitter may change the 140 character limit to no longer include things such as images and links, Twitter has today announced they’ve done just that, with a few added extras. You could type at length, giving grammar its due!
Elsewhere, Twitter will also be enabling the retweet and quote tweet options for your own tweets.
Twitter is also going to enable the retweet button for own tweets in the coming months, allowing users to easily retweet or quote tweet themselves. However, these changes are not immediate.
Sherman wrote that these updates will become available in the coming months and that the company is notifying users and developers now so that “everything works as it should when we roll these changes out”. This is great news if you’re always tweeting back and forth with someone that has a ridiculously long Twitter username.
“One of the biggest priorities for us this year is to really refine our product, to make it simpler”, Twitter founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey told BBC.
“It’s (140-characters) staying. It’s a good constraint for us, and it allows for of-the-moment brevity…” “Currently, if you want to reply to someone you would start the Tweet as “@androidheadline…” however if that would only be seen by your and that person’s followers.
Twitter Inc. hopes that these changes will reinforce its user growth ensuring better room for text and conversation in each tweet.
One week ago, we first learned that Twitter would likely be easing up on its hard 140-character limit with respect to tweets.
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They also appear to be in line with Twitter’s shift towards being more of a news feed than a blogging platform.
