Twitter’s 140 character stretch begins today

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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.

This is rather neatly demonstrated in the company’s announcement above.

URLs will not be exempt however.

While the move does actually stretch the 140-character limit, we’re fairly glad that the company didn’t ultimately go with its plans to push said limit to 10 000 characters.

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