“So, you can already do a lot in a tweet, but we want you to be able to do even more”. All Twitter have said is that the changes will become available “over the coming months”. “Featuring photos, videos, hashtags, Vines, and more”.
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However, under the changes, media such as images and polls will no longer make up part of the character count, allowing users and brands to say more in them. On Tuesday morning, Twitter revealed their plans to change what counts towards a user’s 140 characters tweet limit. Although it was previously announced that tweets would be expanding beyond the traditional 140 characters, other changes are on the horizon.
“One of the biggest priorities for this year is to refine our product and make it simpler”, said Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, in a blog post.
When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets.
“What we want to do is make the Twitter experience for those who use Twitter every single day more dynamic, faster, more interesting, more expressive”.
Regarding the change, some Twitter users were happy.
What’s more, the microblogging platform is doing away with.@, a workaround that people have used for tweets that start with a username.
All your wildest Twitter dreams are coming true: You can finally blast out all your super hilarious tweets from before you had a thousand followers without having to shamelessly reply to yourself or manually rewrite it.
“It’s (140-characters) staying. It’s a good constraint for us, and it allows for of-the-moment brevity…”
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Sherman said the changes will have a significant impact on tweets. Today, we’re notifying you and our developers, so that everything works as it should when we roll these changes out.
