How to overcome the barrier of 140 characters on Twitter – BBC

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• April 8, 2015

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The new functionality is available on iPhone and on the web. Coming Soon to Android.

We all know that feeling of lack of space in Twitter, wanting to tell many things and end up writing something incomprehensible.

And sometimes, their limit of 140 characters can also provoke some expressive claustrophobia.

From now on, however, the available space will be somewhat higher. But only when we quote the tweets of others.

The number of characters in a tweet that was shared outside is deducted so far mythical Twitter limit, but a new update social network will add up to 116 characters more to these messages.

The company responds this way to complaints from users who were especially corseted when performing this action.

Later, when the user wants to retweet a window with the message and the new space will appear to add the commentary.

In the “timeline” will be the message published along with a preview your image and content.

Recap and Periscope were recently added by Twitter.

So far, this new option is only available for Apple devices and the web version of Twitter.

The company’s San Francisco (EE. UU.) says, however, that soon will also find on Android.

How to use the new function

These are the steps required to use this additional space as the Twitter says.

In your ‘timeline’ leave message along with a preview.

From the web:

1. Hover over a Tweet.
2. Click the Retweet icon.
3. A popup window will show the tweet and a comment box opens.
4. Write your comments in the Add Comment.
5. Click the Tweet button.
6. The Tweet will be shared with all your followers as a Tweet quoted.

mobile applications

1. Click the icon Retweet.
2. Press Quote Tweet.
3. Add a comment and click mail.
4. The Tweet will be shared with all your followers as a Tweet quoted.

Recent updates

Thus, Twitter is adding new concepts and updates.

In January, the company added Recap, a function that retrieves the tweets that are most important and published when the user was disconnected.

Periscope and Recap part of the new details that you add Twitter in recent times.

It was to preserve the most important tweets that might be drowned by the rapid flow of messages. It is estimated that more than 500 million tweets are sent each day.

To get users do not lose track of what’s happening on the network, a few months ago also important messages are automatically published tuiteros to which the user does not follow.

Similarly, the company added in March Periscope, an application that lets you record live video and share it on tweets.

Thus , tried to curb competition Meerkat, which caused a furor a month earlier.

While these improvements are always in line trying to eat you land to Facebook, which has 1,300 million users from 284 million . Twitter

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