Twitter on Thursday began rolling out changes to let people pack more into tweets, subtracting from the character count names of those being replied to in posts. The latest software modification at the one-to-many messaging service comes about a year after Twitter set out to relax a 140-character limit set due to mobile phone text messaging constraints in place when Twitter launched in 2006. "Now, when you reply to someone or a group, those @usernames won't count toward your tweet's 140 characters." Providing more room in tweets is seen as a way to encourage more use and sharing of pictures, videos and links. "We'll continue to think about how we can improve conversations and make Twitter easier to use."

Source: Egypt Independent March 30, 2017 21:45 UTC