Twitter Changing Up 140 Character Rules

Finally! Unfortunately, seeing everyone we follow's replies will get annoying. RTing yourself will be pretty odd at first.

 

Great. That's all I wanted.

I definitely don't want them making the character count unlimited. One of the reasons I love twitter is because it's on the fly, quick thoughts. If you wanna write a novel do it on FB.

 

I like these changes, they all make sense without taking away from one the quick-real time aspect of Twitter.

 

Good changes all around. Although now that username mentions aren't counting towards the 140 characters, are people going to start mentioning their entire list of followers to make their tweets more visible? I could see that getting annoying, just like Facebook spam posts.

 

@So_I_can_have_infinte_space_available_to_me_if_I_type_like_this_on_twitter_So_I_can_have_infinte_space_available_to_me_if_I_type_like_this_on_twitter_So_I_can_have_infinte_space_available_to_me_if_I_type_like_this_on_twitter_So_I_can_have_infinte_space_available_to_me_if_I_type_like_this_on_twitter_So_I_can_have_infinte_space_available_to_me_if_I_type_like_this_on_twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I love this. It never made sense to me that who you were @"ing" took up character space, especially if you're having a Twitter convo with multiple people.

Also, as someone who runs my work's social media pages, this will be especially helpful, considering I post a TON of photos and links as well as @ a lot of businesses/other people.

 

Definitely a welcome change, but I'll truly them when they no longer limit me to just 15 characters for my user name. They're single-handedly ruining my social media synergy.

 

You won't see the reply unless they retweet it from my understanding of the changes.

What we will see is initial tweets to people that would have previously been hidden.

 

Hopefully it doesn't result in more spam -- tag 20 people and share a link.