Twitter's 140-Character Limit To Exclude Links And Photos

Social media company Twitter, Inc. is taking a bold step of relaxing its 140-character limit by allowing users to compose more lengthy posts, a report says.

A Bloomberg news posts recently announced that Twitter will soon exclude photos and links as part of the limit. The change is expected to take effect in about two weeks, according to Bloomberg sources. The company, however, did not deny nor confirm the changes as of this writing.

In January, the social media company's Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey also announced that it is looking into becoming more flexible for the benefit of its users. The Telegraph recalled that Dorsey said Twitter wanted to assess how people use Twitter, particularly the various ways of displaying text.

Also earlier this year, the company CEO has been quoted to consider increasing the limit to 10,000 characters, emphasizing that Twitter is a platform for discussions and live events and the short limit could discourage many users to use it for their events.

Dorsey is reportedly considering changing the rules of the composition and character limits, but still no formal statement from the company has been released.  As of now, Twitter automatically shortens links but these are counted 23 characters, making it a real challenge for some social media managers.

Twitter has also been trying to prioritize videos as great tools for users to promote their live events. In early 2016, Twitter even agreed to pay about $10 million to the National Football League just for them to have the rights to live stream 10 night games. Twitter is also said to be in the process of working on more content deals that focus on political and entertainment events.

The announcement to shorten has brought excitement to some social media users. However, nothing is final yet until Twitter issues an official statement on the issue.