Great news, Twitter users. From today, the social network will no longer count certain types of content towards the arbitrary 140-character limit.
First announced in May 2016, the move will allow tweeters to get more written content into their tweets, regardless of how many images or @names they have included. Previously, these were counted towards the limit.
Twitter did ponder pushing that limit to 10 000 characters back in January
Polls, videos, GIFs, images, @names and practically any other embedded media won’t be counted as one of the 140 characters.
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