“This will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward”, said Todd Sherman, Twitter’s senior product manager, in a blog post.
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Twitter officially announced that a tweet’s 140-character limit will no longer be affected by links, media and handles..
Replies: When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count.
Twitter has been rumored to be expanding its character count beyond 140 characters for many months.
-Media attachments: When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets, that media will no longer count as characters within your Tweet.
Twitter’s 140-character limit is changing soon.
Links now take up to 23 characters of a tweet, limiting the amount of commentary that users can offer when sharing articles or other content. That objective has since become obsolete and users have found clever ways to get around the character limit by taking pictures of longer text, using third party services that link to longer text and sending tweets in a string.
The retweet button will also be enabled for users to click on their own tweets, allowing them to retweet themselves or share an additional note alongside a previous tweet.
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“These updates will be available over the coming months”, wrote Sherman. Among the changes were a new “home timeline” feature debuted in February, shaking up the traditional reverse chronological timeline by first showing the top tweets a user is most likely to care about since they were last on the site. “Today, we’re notifying you and our developers, so that everything works as it should when we roll these changes out”. “As long as things are fast, easy, simple and expressive, we’re going to look at what we can do to make Twitter a better experience”.
