May 18

Twitter to Stop Counting Links, Photos in 140-Limit

Twitter to Stop Counting Links, Photos in 140-Limit

 

Twitter to Stop Counting Links, Photos in 140-Limit

Twitter to Stop Counting Links, Photos in 140-Limit

Tweets are about to get longer. The social network will soon stop counting users’ photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for messages.

The change, which Twitter has yet to formally announced publicly, will likely be implemented by the end of this month, Bloomberg reports.

To Twitter users, cutting out the links in the character limit could be a big savings in crafting their messages. Links take up about 23 characters, even when Twitter automatically shortens them.

Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said in January that the company would be experimenting with new ways to display text on Twitter. The 140-character limit has been with Twitter since its beginnings in 2006. But the limit was initially in place so that tweets would fit all within a mobile text message. Now, with the growth of smartphones, the 140-character limit no longer seems as important, some users have argued.

“Removing the character requirement for links and photos may encourage users to add more media to their posts,” Bloomberg reports.

Twitter has seen its growth stall in recent months. In its latest quarterly update, the number of monthly active users totaled 310 million, just a 3 percent increase compared to last year.

Source: “Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit,” Bloomberg (May 16, 2016) and “Links and Photos Won’t Count in Twitter’s 140 Character Limit Soon,” Business Insider (May 17, 2016)

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