Twitter says usernames and images will no longer count against 140-character limit

[xxMATTGxx]

YAY at last!

Twitter is expanding the number of things you can post in a 140-character tweet, without expanding the number of characters. Within the next few months, usernames, quoted tweets, photos, and other media attachments will no longer count against the tweet’s 140-character limit. The company says it will also (finally) enable users to begin tweets with usernames without first adding a period, and — attention thought leaders — natively retweet themselves.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/24/11...otos-usernames

Changes:

Replies: When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count. This will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward, no more penny-pinching your words to ensure they reach the whole group.

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. More room for words!

Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself: We’ll be enabling the Retweet button on your own Tweets, so you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed.

Goodbye, .@: These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.

Source: https://blog.twitter.com/express-eve...140-characters

At last, usernames and more will no longer take up characters!

[Chris]

About time! I knew that they were discounting photos and links but didn't know about the rest.

[David]

weren't they planning on removing the limit altogether? or was that a lot of rubbish

smart move though, it was overdue

[lawrawrrr]

Loving the whole images and mentions thing BUT apparently we're going to see everyone's mentions on our timelines???? I don't want that!!!

[Nick]

weren't they planning on removing the limit altogether? or was that a lot of rubbish

smart move though, it was overdue

if they did that then everyone would post like 50 paragraphs

[e5]

didn't even know what .@: was or did!

[Cerinacy]

I am pleased that the links from photos are being removed, not sure about the @ being removed but will see.

[David]

if they did that then everyone would post like 50 paragraphs

would you post full architect lyrics if they did that

[j0rd]

this is brill news

[Nick]

would you post full architect lyrics if they did that

u know me to well