Twitter has stopped counting the letters in @ replies. The handles won’t be counted in tweet replies in which only 140 characters can be used.
We’re changing replies so that you have all 140 characters to express yourself.
Learn more: https://t.co/PNWGilbmVd pic.twitter.com/cxBJohZc2Q
— Twitter (@Twitter) March 30, 2017
In a tweet by the social media platform, it said, “We re changing replies so that you have all 140 characters to express yourself.” Twitter made an announcement nearly a year ago saying that Twitter would slowly distance itself from the restriction of tweet characters. It had said that the media uploads as well as @ replies would not be counted in the 140 characters.
The new update has been rolled out in the website and smartphone apps for iOS and Android according to which letters in @ replies will not be a part of the limited number of characters in a tweet. The social networking site was initially inspired by text messages where only a restricted number of 160 characters can be sent at once.
Twitter has made the following changes;
1. 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.
2. You can tap on “Replying to…” to easily see and control who’s part of your conversation.
3. When reading a conversation, you’ll actually see what people are saying, rather than seeing lots of @usernames at the start of a Tweet.