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Twitter was originally designed to be used on SMS text messages, which are limited to 160 characters. Twitter reserved 20 characters for the username, leaving 140 characters for the post. [ 4 ] The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] encouraging "speed and brevity".
The 140-character limit also increased the usage of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, tr.im, and other content-hosting services such as TwitPic, memozu.com and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
The original, strict 140 character limit was gradually relaxed. In 2016, Twitter announced that attachments, links, and media such as photos, videos, and the person's handle, would no longer count; a user photo post used to count for around 24 characters. [109] [110] In 2017, Twitter handles were similarly excluded. [111]
Right on schedule, Twitter's long-anticipated announcement goes live today: photos, videos, GIFs, polls and quoted tweets will no longer count towards the 140-character limit. The company is also ...
Twitter is making changes to its 140-character limit, and links to media and @replies will no longer count against the cap.
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In March 2011, D'Aloisio launched an iOS app named Trimit, which used an algorithm to condense text such as emails and blog posts into a summary of 1000, 500, or 140-character text. [16] With 100,000 downloads, [17] the app was featured as on the Apple App Store. [18]
Twitter may be working on a new product to allow users to write longer tweets