Currently the url “consume” the space allocated for user messages, then the social network Twitter is preparing a modification that will certainly give more freedom to users.
Soon the social network will no longer consider the multimedia content and web links when accounting for the characters, the limit will remain at 140.
change, as published by Bloomberg could occur in the next two weeks, will allow users to write more, since currently a link consumes about 23 characters, although Twitter shorten its length. The novelty is meeting a need that is time. Is that, unlike what happened during the early years of the network, are today more and more users use the service to share photos and videos, so often tweeters text are forced to shorten .
Co-founder and CEO of the company, Jack Dorsey, said on more than one occasion their willingness to review basic principles of the platform, including the distinctive 140 characters, arguing that continues “showing a challenge “to its foundations” in order to make the product easier and more accessible to more people. “
so, the network continues to reinvent itself . Without going any further, last November the company ended the traditional favorites and replaced them with “likes” currently are heart-shaped.
In January it emerged that the company is working on 140 plus a product that will allow users to share content of up to 10,000 characters. It would be launched towards the end of quarter of this year and it is believed that only 140 characters would be displayed and some kind of call to action to give notice on the extra content would be included.
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