Now Longer Tweets : All You Need to Know About Twitter’s 140 Character Update

Twitter has simply created an enormous modification to the approach tweets work.

From today, Twitter is cutting short on what styles of content can use its 140-character limit.

Now, @names in replies, media attachments (like photos, GIFs, videos, and polls) and quoted Tweets can now not be counted against the precious a hundred and forty characters that structure a tweet. this enables for richer public conversations that ar easier to follow on Twitter and ensures individuals will attach media to tweets while not sacrificing the characters they need to precise themselves.

Twitter initial proclaimed this update back in might however didn’t quite ensure a date once these changes would reach Twitter’s 300m+ users. However, nowadays the corporate confirmed the update has been unrolled.

What’s changed? Full details on Twitter’s 140 character update

This update has been much anticipated by many Twitter users and on their blog, Twitter shared the full details of what’s changed:

• Replies: When replying to a Tweet, @names will no longer count toward the 140-character count. This will make having conversations on Twitter easier and more straightforward, no more penny-pinching your words to ensure they reach the whole group.
• Media attachments: When you add attachments like photos, GIFs, videos, polls, or Quote Tweets, that media will no longer count as characters within your Tweet. More room for words!
• Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself: We’ll be enabling the Retweet button on your own Tweets, so you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed.
• Goodbye, .@: These changes will help simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers. (That means you’ll no longer have to use the ”.@” convention, which people currently use to broadcast Tweets broadly.) If you want a reply to be seen by all your followers, you will be able to Retweet it to signal that you intend for it to be viewed more broadly.