It was reported a couple of weeks ago that Twitter is going to relax the rules related to its 140 characters limit for tweets. The company today announced that it’s going to allow users to express even more in 140 characters, meaning that it’s not going to count some things against the limit so that users can squeeze in more content in their tweets, without it having to remove the 140 character limit.
Twitter has religiously stuck to the 140 character limit ever since it was launched, it previously applied the limit to direct messages as well but last year it decided to remove the limit from DMs, but it hasn’t hinted at doing the same for regular tweets.
It’s taking other measures to enable users to express more in a single tweet. In the coming months, when replying to tweets, @names won’t count against the limit. Attachments like photos, GIFs, polls, videos or Quote tweets will also not count against the 140 character limit.
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. It hasn’t said when the changes will take effect, it only mentions that all this will be happening in the next few months.
Twitter is doing away with the “.@” convention as well which currently allows users to broadcast their tweets broadly. Soon, new tweets that begin with a username will reach all followers instead.
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