September 19, mark the date in your calendar is the day when twitter will eradicate its limit of 140 characters while tweeting. Recently Twitter announced a range of coming changes to their 140 character limit.
What’s new in it :
- Twitter is about to make a big change to the way that tweets work.
- Your @names will no longer be counted in the replies you give.
- Media attachments (images, GIFs, videos, polls, etc.) will no longer be under the limit of 140 characters.
- Now you will be able to re-tweet yourself which is a good change indeed.
- Tweets that begin with @name would be seen by all your followers.
- The extra room for text will give users more flexibility in composing their messages.
- Usernames will no longer count when they’re at the beginning of replies.
- This will provide users an additional room for discussion.
- As well as you will enjoy the full expressiveness of the 140 characters.
That date could change, of course, but it looks likely that Twitter will be enacting the update very soon. That would also put it within the three-to-four month time range .
The advantage of announcing major updates so far ahead of their actual release is that it lets all the negative sentiment die down, which means more people will likely give the change a chance. Case in point – people were upset about Twitter changing a fundamental element of their platform, relaxing the 140-character limit in any way was always going to inspire some backlash. But now, when the change actually does come in, that negativity will be diminished, giving it more opportunity to succeed.
