In the offing: Longer tweets from September 19

Beginning 19th September Twitter will cut down on content that includes to the 140 word limit

Twitter announced earlier this year that it would alter its 140-character limit to provide users with greater content space.

The social media networking service plans to roll out the update this month, The Verge has confirmed. Beginning September 19, Twitter will cut down on content included towards the 140-character limit, allowing users more room to send messages using the website.



This would include media attachments such as images, GIFs, videos and quoted tweets. There has been no official statement by Twitter on this account. While the news comes from sources said to be close to the company, the date for the update could change.

Twitter also plans to adjust the 140-limit so that it no longer includes usernames as well. This would give users more room to reply to tweets and afford greater flexibility when composing messages.



"This is the most notable change we’ve made in recent times around conversation in particular, and around giving people the full expressiveness of the 140 characters," CEO Jack Dorsey told The Verge in May. "I’m excited to see even more dialog because of this."

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Twitter originally planned to extend the 140-character limit implemented to allow tweets to fit in SMS messages. The company than went back to its stand when Jack Dorsey praised the 140-character limit even in face of “tweetstorms" and screenshots of iPhone's Notes app.

Whether the social media website plans to introduce these changes all at once is unclear. However, we can expect one of them to be released next Monday.

This article originally appeared on The Verge.