Usernames No Longer Included in Twitter 140-Character Limit
By ETCentric
March 31, 2017
March 31, 2017
Twitter is following up on last year’s promise to offer its users more room in their tweet replies. Now, when a user responds to another’s tweet, that individual’s username will not be counted as part of the 140-character limit in the response. “The move is part of a broader effort at Twitter to go ‘beyond 140’ characters and give people more room to tweet without dramatically altering the company’s signature 140-character limit,” notes Recode. “For a while in late 2015 and early 2016, the company considered expanding the character limit to 10,000 characters. But that plan fell through.”
Topics: Anthony Noto, API, Character Limit, Evan Williams, Facebook, Jack Dorsey, Metadata, Microblog, News, San Francisco, Snapchat, Social Media, Tweet, Twitter, UI, Username
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