News Twitter To Ease Character Limit, Making Room For Gifs, Videos And More

Today, this article’s 140-character first paragraph forms the entirety of a Twitter post. But this will not be the case for too much longer.

On Tuesday, Twitter said it planned to introduce a series of changes in the coming months to make it easier for people to communicate with one another on the social media service. In particular, the modifications will loosen the 140-character limit of a Twitter post, a restriction that has at times stumped and infuriated people, but that has come to define the tweet as an economical and idiosyncratic form of communication.

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