Twitter’s longer tweets go into effect on September 19th

The changes will exempt certain features from counting toward its 140-character limit, including media attachments such as photos, GIFs, videos and polls. The date of the changes – which were initially announced back in May – comes from The Verge via two verified sources.

The possibility of more space on Twitter prompted much excitement but also sparked fierce debate in the digital world.

“But sometimes you write a perfectly crafted 139-character tweet and then add a photo or a video to a tweet and it goes over the character limit, and you have to waste time cutting it down”.

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter limited users to 140 characters per tweet. Some people love this, while some simply wish the limit was slightly higher in order to create more detailed tweets.

The new tweet rules are created to make conversations faster and more intuitive, and are part of a wider effort by Twitter to make the service simpler for users.

According to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the changes are some of the biggest the company has ever instituted. Twitter’s 140 character limit is kind of the platform’s trademark, but we guess they reckon that users have more to say so instead of breaking it up into multiple tweets, why not just expand the character limit, right? They have since agreed the 140 character limit is here to stay, but this new innovation seems to be a welcome compromise.