Twitter has eased restrictions on message size – TASS

WASHINGTON, September 19. /TASS/. Social network Twitter has eased the rule that the volume of messages in her microblogs limited to 140 characters. Now photos and videos will not be counted when counting the number of characters.

“Pictures, videos, images in GIF format for the exchange of images – approx. Q. TASS), polls and quotes of the tweets will not be counted in your 140 characters,” – said in a statement posted in its official blog the private network.

On the planned innovation leadership network announced earlier this year.

the Limitation of 140 characters in Twitter is valid since the founding of this service in March 2006. Network founder Jack

Dorsey admitted that the increase in the number of characters in the message can be a good way of bringing the service to a new audience, but he later abandoned this idea. Ultimately it was decided to leave the rule in force, thus softening it.

the Social network Twitter is a microblogging service for public exchange of short messages. The monthly audience of active users is more than 300 million people.