New Updates Make Twitter Bigger, Longer And Uncut

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From: NewNowNext

Twitter has added several updates that will give users a little more room to express themselves: In September the company announced that gifs, images, graphs and other media won’t count toward your 140-word total.

In a new upgrade announced yesterday, now when you reply to a message or a group, usernames won’t count toward your character count, either.

We're changing replies so that you have all 140 characters to express yourself.

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— Twitter (@Twitter) March 30, 2017

 Per the Twitter site:

Who you are replying to will appear above the tweet text rather than within the Tweet text itself, so you have more characters to have conversations.

You can tap on “Replying to…” to easily see and control who’s part of your conversation.

When reading a conversation, you’ll actually see what people are saying, rather than seeing lots of @usernames at the start of a tweet.

The hope is users will be able to follow a conversation more easily, and have more space for messages.

“The updates we’re making today are based on feedback from all of you as well as research and experimentation,” the company said in a statement. “In our tests of this new experience, we found that people engage more with conversations on Twitter.”

The company has also added functionality that will hopefully address trolling and hate speech: Users can now block certain keywords from appearing in their Twitter stream, and also block anonymous accounts from appearing in notifications. That includes users you don’t follow or users without a confirmed email or phone number, or that still have a Twitter egg as their profile picture.