Twitter finally relaxes its 140 character limit

Twitter finally does what should have been done many years back. The micro-blogging site is relaxing its 140 character limit which means that most things that aren’t plain old text or emojis will no longer count toward your character limit, effectively increasing the content you can now squeeze into your tweets.

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

Though one still gets only 140 characters towards text messages and links, but adding quotes, polls, videos, or images will no longer reduce precious characters.

Importantly, quoted tweets will also no longer eat up your character limit, although if you decide to include the link to a particular tweet, it will count. Many users were actually hoping for links to be exempted from the 140 character rule as well, however Twitter has kept it within the list of stuff that counts.

The company is also reportedly experimenting with another feature wherein it will also exclude user names from the said limit. This feature will be particularly useful in situations where you want to mention multiple people in your tweet. If you reply to multiple people at once, Twitter only omits the person who sent the original tweet from the character count.