What all that adds up to is the fact that nothing is set in proverbial stone yet it’s possible that Sept. The Verge "independently " the news, citing “two sources familiar with the company’s business” as its origin the site also stated that “a Twitter spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by The Verge.” Additionally, Bustle reached out to Twitter, and a spokesperson said the company had no comment at this time.
However, it’s also worth noting that the character limit change has not been publicly confirmed by Twitter. 19 release date for these updates is indeed the case, we could have access to more verbose tweets as soon as next week. The Verge also reported that usernames, too, will no longer count towards the 140-character limit, as long as they’re placed at the beginning of replies. Given that the average media attachment has hitherto taken up somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 characters, that’s a not-insubstantial increase. 19, 2016 (there's your date for you), media attachments such as images, GIFs, videos, and polls, as well as quoted tweets, would no longer count towards the 140-character limit for which the social media platform is known. The Verge first reported the news on Monday, saying that as of Sept. Also, it's not that the number of characters available per tweet itself might be changing - it's the things within a tweet that count toward the 140-character total. Well, I have good news and bad news for you: It might be soon… but we don’t actually know for sure yet. So, when? When can we expect the limit to expand? After all, Twitter’s brevity is its greatest strength - and perhaps its greatest weakness, as well if you have trouble condensing your thoughts into 140 characters… well, the platform likely isn’t going to be for you - so the idea of its most distinctive identifier going the way of all things is notable, no matter how you feel about it. The internet went bananas yesterday when rumors started swirling that we’d soon have a few more characters available to us for each of our carefully-crafted tweets - which, of course, has many people wondering exactly when the Twitter character limit is changing.