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Twitter Won’t Count Links, Photos in 140-Character Limit

Social media giant to finally allow more flexibility to turn thoughts into words.

 

Ever felt stymied by Twitter’s character limits that did not allow you to post descriptions of links? Well, the social media giant is reportedly planning an update that will discount URLs and photos when it adds up the 140-character limit that it sets for users.

A report from Bloomberg suggested that Twitter is coming up with an update to finally overcome one of the most irritating hurdles that users came up with while using the medium to share their status updates.

Links and photographs that takes up more than 20 characters on an average, will be eliminated from the character-count in the update that might hit the markets over the next few weeks, the report suggested, adding that users would get an additional five to six words on average to work with.

Of course, the latest move is well below what the markets anticipated following reports earlier this year that Twitter could raise the character limit from the current measly 140 to a whopping 10,000.

Reacting to that report, company CEO Jack Dorsey had said, “We’ve spent a lot of time observing what people are doing on Twitter, and we see them taking screenshots of text and tweeting it… Instead, what if that text… was actually text? Text that could be searched; Text that could be highlighted; that’s more utility and power.” (Read the full text)

In other words, what Dorsey said was that the company was open to rethinking this character limit, which was a legacy of the era where people actually sent text messages to connect with each other and Whatsapp and other such messaging platforms were work-in-progress.

With revenues not moving as expected and growth slowing down, Twitter has been on a feature-enhancing spree of late, in a bid to attract new users. It had added the timeline option whereby algorithms drop the best tweets at the top of a user’s timeline. However, it continues to refrain from creating an algorithmic timeline such as Facebook – something that has created doubts about objectivity in the minds of its users.


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