Twitter Announces Photos, Videos, And More Don’t Count Towards 140 Character Limit

GIFs, polls, and quoted Tweets won’t effect your character count.

September 19, 2016

Say more about what's happening! Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters. pic.twitter.com/I9pUC0NdZC
— Twitter (@twitter) September 19, 2016

Twitter has made individual Tweets just a little bigger. According to the company, videos, photos, polls, GIFs, or Quote Tweets won't count against a Tweets 140 character limit. Check out the new usage in the short video above. According to a VentureBeat, Twitter has also been testing no longer making @names count against Tweets as well. Read that full piece here.

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Twitter Announces Photos, Videos, And More Don’t Count Towards 140 Character Limit

GIFs, polls, and quoted Tweets won’t effect your character count.

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