Twitter stops counting usernames in replies toward the 140-character limit<article>
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<p>Twitter’s 140-character limit is essential to its existence, but the company realizes how annoying it can be to trim your thoughts when composing a reply because the person you’re chatting with has a long username. Twitter has decided to no longer count a username toward your 140 characters, a change now rolling out to its iOS and Android apps as well as Twitter.com.</p><p>This means tweets will look a little bit different. Instead of including the username of the person you’re replying to in the tweet itself, the username will appear above your text. The change will make tweets more easily readable, especially when conversations include a handful of people. (This also means the end of lengthy @username clusters in Twitter reply canoes, at long last.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3186649/internet/twitter-stops-counting-usernames-in-replies-toward-the-140-character-limit.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter stops counting usernames in replies toward the 140-character limit
