Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

Twitter Inc. is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages.The social media company will soon stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for messages, according to a person familiar with the matter. The change could happen in the next two weeks, said the person who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t yet public. Links currently take up 23 characters, even after Twitter automatically shortens them. The company declined to comment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/twitter-to-stop-counting-photos-and-links-in-140-character-limitAlso see:Twitter ‘to stop counting photos and links in character limit’
Microblogging site Twitter is to stop counting photographs and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a report from Bloomberg.The change could be made within the next two weeks, Bloomberg quoted a source as saying.The company has not yet commented on the report.
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