Twitter: links, photos and video soon excluded from the limit of 140 characters

The limit of Twitter's character is one of the features of the service, which offers 140 lines to inform people, to exchange opinions, comment on news events occurred. Within this limit we are, however, counted the link URL and photographs, apparently hated feature by many users of the service. The change could come soon, within the next two weeks, according to a new Bloomberg report.

URLs are automatically shortened by Twitter, but even in this mode gnaw almost all characters in the message, 23 to be exact. The company achieved in 2010 a service URL shortener (t.co) to facilitate the operation to its users, however many of these still consider the wasted space occupied by links and photos, especially in relation all'esigua availability of characters that are date for each message posted on the service.

If the new policy in the count were actually implemented would allow people to compose longer tweets, news that would approach - albeit very little - to some rumors in recent months that they wanted the company to work to eliminate entirely the character limits on service . Twitter has already said he will not come to that, but it "will not hesitate to build new tools on the service" if they will be asked in a loud voice from the audience.

Twitter has often encouraged its users to include more multimedia content in messages, such as video, animated GIF, or polls, but now one that requires the audience is that they do not erode the availability of characters. With less stringent limits users will no longer be included in the "multimedia post" far shorter comments, and can finally use a more conversational tone.