Huzzah! Twitter to stop counting photos and links in 140-character limit
PLUS: Recent financials.
Here's a little snippet of news that caused undue excitement in the social media set.
Twitter will soon stop counting photos and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a Bloomberg report that quotes "a person familiar with the matter."
The change could happen in the next two weeks, the report says.
Links take up 23 characters, even after Twitter automatically shortens them. The company declined to comment.
The 140-character limit mimics the restriction that used to be placed on txt messages (Millennials, ask your parents).
Twitter recently raised the limit for direct messages to 10,000 characters and has publicly toyed with the idea of taking the lid off for general posts, too.–
I hope not.
Like other Twitter users, I find this artificial limit infuriating for my own posts but keenly appreciate it for others.
It's important for the social network to keep its users happy as it scratches around for a way to make more money from ads.
Twitter recently reported a first-quarter loss that halved to $US80 million as revenue rose 36% to $595 million and its number of users increased five million to 310 million.
All the numbers are heading in the right direction - just not as quickly as analysts had picked.
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Huzzah! Twitter to stop counting photos and links in 140-character limit
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