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The 160-character limit was adopted by Twitter when the site launched in 2006, 20 characters were reserved for the username, with 140 characters for the tweet. [4] The original limit was seen as an iconic fixture of the platform, [5] [6] [7] encouraging "speed and brevity". [8] In March 2017, the character limit on Twitter was changed so that ...
The service has experimented with changing how tweets work over the years to attract more users and to keep them on the site. The character limit was originally 140 characters when the service started, had media attachments no longer count in the mid-2010s, and doubled altogether in 2017.
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. [106] [107] In 2017, Twitter handles were similarly excluded. [108] The same year, Twitter ...
Twitter Inc is building a new feature that will allow users post messages as long as 10,000 characters, Re/code reported on Tuesday. Twitter considering 10,000-character limit for tweets Skip to ...
Twitter Blue subscribers are now able to post up to 10,000 characters in one tweet, as well as format their tweets with bold or italic text. It seems as though Twitter's trying to bulk up the ...
Character Limit chronicles the rise and fall of Twitter after Elon Musk's tumultuous $44-billion-dollar acquisition. The book showcases Musk's volatility, highlighting the actions that led to the company's drastic devaluation and the resurgence of unmoderated hate-speech, misinformation, and white nationalism on the platform.
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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. Since June 2011, Twitter has used its own t.co domain for automatic shortening ...