Twitter Gives Users More Bang for their 140 Characters, Report

Twitter has announced that photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count towards your 140-character limit.

The social media site said it wanted to give users the opportunity to say more and “simplify” the service.

Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey has previously admitted the platform was too confusing for consumers. The site has also been plagued by mixed financial results and dramatic dips in its share price over the last year as user numbers have failed to rise.

Twitter has struggled also to attract new subscribers to the service, which currently has around 313 million active monthly users, compared with fellow social network Facebook, which has more than 1.7 billion.

Twitter has already removed the limit from the private Direct Messages service, and the social media site also said that when users reply to tweets, the user name of the person they are replying to – which is required in the tweet – will no longer count towards the limit.

In conversation chains the names of other users will no longer appear, with a small message detailing who you’re replying to at the top of the tweet instead.

Say more about what's happening! Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters. pic.twitter.com/I9pUC0NdZC

— Twitter (@twitter) September 19, 2016

Agencies/Canadajournal