Report: Links, Photos Won’t Count Toward Twitter’s 140-Character Limit

While talk of Twitter abandoning its 140-character limit seems to be subsiding, the company is tweaking how it works, and that should free up a few characters for your tweets. Bloomberg reports that characters in a URL or in a photo won’t count toward the 140-character limit. Typically, a shortened URL takes up 23 characters. Twitter has not commented on the report. The company, which recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, has been trying to grow its user base and to find...

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