Twitter finally sets date to grow beyond its 140 character limit

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by Sindy Cator on September 12, 2016 at 10:02 pm

Tweets will have more space to work with, come September 19. Media attachments will no longer count against the 140 character limit, and neither will usernames at the beginning of a tweet. Twitter announced this change back in May, but now The Verge is reporting the change will take hold come September 19. The change does not completely remove the 140-character limit, just changes what counts against that limit. In that way, it’s similar to other changes Twitter has made over the years. For example: URLs used to count, in their entirety, toward character limits. This gave rise to an entire ecosystem…