Twitter has announced that, it was easing its 140-character limit for tweets, which would also allow the users to add links, attachments and some other features within the short message.
The move aimed as Twitter’s effort to increase its user base and engagement have been sputtering, raising questions about its growth trend.
Todd Sherman, the Twitter product manager has said that this feature will not count name in replies, and media attachments such as photos, videos and polls as the character limit.
He added that this update in Twitter would be implemented “over the coming months’ and also the developer partners will be given the tools to enable the change on sites that uses Twitter.
Among the various other features, one feature would enable users to “retweet” or “quote” their own messages, when you want to share a new reflection or feel like a really good one went unnoticed.
Twitter will also have a reply tweet for all the users’ follower. This will further eliminate the need for a sometimes misunderstood technique where the users had to add a character to a reply to allow it to be viewed broadly.
Last month itself, twitter had a quarterly updated itself, which showed little change in its user base.
The number of monthly active users was recorded 310 million, up three percent from a year ago and only slightly higher than the 305 million in the previous quarter.
