While Twitter isn’t ready to expand its 140-character limit anytime soon, the social media may be willing to exempt photos and URLs from that per-Tweet allotment.
Bloomberg cites a person familiar with the matter who says the change could happen in the next two weeks. As it stands now, links require 23 characters — even after Twitter shortens them automatically.
The 140-character limit was first used by Twitter because that was the limit for a single mobile text message. Tweeting by text was popular back in the pre-smartphone era of 2006, when the social media company first launched.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said the 140-character limit will live on because it’s “too iconic” to get rid of.
“It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us,” he said in March. “It allows for of-the-moment brevity.”
Twitter declined to comment on Bloomberg’s story.
Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit [Bloomberg]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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