Twitter to Stop Counting Photos, Usernames Toward Character Limit

Twitter will soon allow users to include more content in their tweets, even without increasing the platform’s 140-character limit.

Twitter will soon allow users to include more content in their tweets, even without increasing the platform’s 140-character limit. Specifically, Twitter announced four new features coming to the platform over the coming months, including two tweaks to the way a tweet’s character count is measured.

First, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character limit, so users can add more words to their replies without removing usernames from a conversation.

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In addition, media attachments such as photos, GIFs, videos, polls and quote tweets will no longer count toward a tweet’s character limit.

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