The changes essentially mean the 140 character limit, which was originally linked to text messaging limits, now refer just to the text of a tweet, rather than additional media or the people the tweets are directed at.
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When you respond to a tweet, Twitter will no longer count @names toward the 140-character count.
Twitter has officially announced that added media – like videos and images – will no longer be counted as part of its strict 140-character count. Media attachments (photos, GIFs, polls and Quote Tweets) won’t count towards the character limit either.
“The changes don’t stop there: “Twitter also says that it’ll now allow you to retweet yourself if you want to add new thoughts to a previous thread, and it’s getting rid of the “.@-reply” feature.
“One of the biggest priorities for this year is to refine our product and make it simpler”, said Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO and co-founder, in a statement.
“So we are focusing a lot of our energy on making sure that when people tweet it makes sense”. Sherman said this could be useful when you want to share a new reflection or feel like an earlier tweet went unnoticed. This twitter says; “will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward, no more penny-pinching your words to ensure they reach the whole group”. Twitter has been exploring ways to boost its popularity and match some of the features of rival social media platforms.
More than 310 million active users subscribe to Twitter.
Goodbye, .@: These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. Moving forward, new tweets that begin with a username will reach all of your followers.
Looking at these changes, we will have to see how the public views these.
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Twitter users will have to wait a while before these changes come into effect. As such, they wanted to give developer partners time to make any adjustments to products built using Twitter’s API.
