Report: Twitter will soon exclude photos and links from 140-character limit

It’s an age-old debate: some argue the short 140-character cap is integral to Twitter as platform for quick news and status blurbs, but it can also force you to be annoyingly sparse if you want to share photos, videos, or any kind of link. It appears Twitter may have found the obvious compromise: a report by Bloomberg suggests that Twitter will stop counting photos and links towards your character limits within “the next two weeks.” As links currently take up 23 characters, that’s a whole lot more room for your thoughts – 16 percent more, if you’re counting. We certainly were;…
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