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Twitter stops counting photos, GIFs, polls, and quotes against the 140-character limit

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Longer tweets are finally here.</p><p>
On Monday, Twitter began letting its users post photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quotes of other tweets without counting against the 140-character limit. Now that these media attachments won’t reduce the character count, users can compose longer tweets. Twitter announced this change (http://www.macworld.com/article/3071038/software/twitter-is-on-the-right-track-with-this-rumored-change-to-its-140-character-limit.html) back in May, but the company did not set a date for when it would actually be rolling it out to users. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">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 (https://t.co/I9pUC0NdZC)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3121865/social-media/twitter-stops-counting-photos-gifs-polls-and-quotes-against-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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