Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Technology evaluates extend Twitter messages making the links do not count among the 140 characters – Telam

Twitter assesses stop include links and photos as part of the 140 characters that available to network users of microblogging to write, which would give more space to messages, reported the website of Bloomberg.

“the change could occur in the next two weeks,” the US agency, citing a source – “who asked not to be named because the decision is not yet public” – social network

<. p> the links occupy up to 23 characters, because the links that exceed that size automatically cut, so with this implementation tweets may be significantly longer.

the change in the platform still was not confirmed by Twitter.

the 140-character limit of tweets of Twitter was initially adopted because it was a way to send information to enter into the mobile messages (SMS), because when the service debuted in 2006, had not yet proliferated smartphones.

the company came to assess earlier this year the possibility of extending the characters to 10,000, a decision that was discarded as soon as possible and quick and concise nature of the tweets was what allowed the Californian company differentiate itself from competitors, Bloomberg reported.

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