By: Cole Buergi, Leonard & Finco Public Relations
Yes, you read that correctly and, no, it’s not me purposely
trying to stay under the 140 character limit in the headline. This is a blog, not a Tweet.
Reports are that Twitter will stop counting photos and links
as part of its 140-character limit for messages. That means you can now really
say what you want to say, that is in 140 characters or less.
Currently, links take up 23 characters after Twitter
shortens them automatically. Freeing up 23 characters for your thoughts instead
of links may not sound like a lot, but in the world of tweets where brevity is
king, it definitely would be a major change.
This comes after Twitter was contemplating raising the
character limit to 10,000. Thankfully, wiser minds prevailed. It’s hard enough
to keep track of the all the tweets scrolling down the page. Imagine if each
one was the length of a novel. Ok,
10,000 characters doesn’t qualify for novel length, but you get the picture.
The major benefit I see to this change is in the business
world where brevity is sometimes hard to achieve. This will make things a bit
easier.
What do you think of the pending change? Will 23 more
characters make much difference for you?
P.S. This blog is only 1,314 characters. Could you imagine
tweets nearing 10,000? Yikes!
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