According to the resource Bloomberg, the microblogging platform Twitter is going to weaken the requirements to the limitation of 140 characters per tweet. According to some anonymous source familiar with the company’s plans, soon 140 characters will no longer be considered the URL links and images that, in fact, are also links, just links to pictures.
Innovation is expected in the next two weeks. The company has not commented on the leak. Recall the reference at the moment can “capture” up to 23 characters, even after the automatic cuts.
We will remind, in 2011 Twitter has launched automatic link shortening, as previously users had to manually use special services-sorasalmi. In this abbreviated link continues to show “site destination”. In August 2015, Twitter has also allowed private messages (direct messages longer than 140 characters.