Twitter might stop counting links and photos in its character limit

Your tweets might soon be getting a little more wiggle room.
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Twitter is going to stop counting tweets and links toward its 140-character limit, an anonymous source told Bloomberg Technology on Monday.

The change could reportedly happen within the next two weeks, and it means users would have an extra 23 characters to play with in their missives.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.