Rumors faced with positive user reaction

May 17, 2016 13:35 GMT  ·  By
Twitter thinking of removing images and links from the tweet's 140-character limit
   Twitter thinking of removing images and links from the tweet's 140-character limit

A source inside Twitter has told Bloomberg that the company is thinking about dropping links and images from a tweet's 140-character limit in order to increase engagement and get more users tweeting.

Every time a user wants to add a link to their tweet, they lose 23 characters. Every time they add a photo (or multiple photos), they lose 24 characters.

If they add both, the user loses 47 characters right from the get-go, and the tweet limit drops to 93 instead of 140 characters. This is what Twitter "supposedly" wants to fix.

Rumors are unconfirmed, but users like it

The inside source claims that Twitter is considering not counting these two items against the tweet limit anymore.

Twitter hasn't confirmed the rumors yet, but the move makes sense and is not as groundbreaking to the service as previous rumors that had the company raise the maximum tweet limit to 10,000 characters.

At the start of the year, another media report said that the company's leadership was experimenting with this idea of making tweets as long as DMs.

The idea never materialized because many users reacted negatively to the idea of Twitter removing its hallmark feature, the 140-character limit. This time around, the overall response is a positive one.

Jack Dorsey is not Steve Jobs, but his return is welcome

Twitter is going through massive changes, especially after the company's co-founder, Jack Dorsey returned to the company as CEO last fall. Just like Steve Jobs' return to Apple, many view Dorsey's comeback to Twitter as the move that's going to save the company.

The social networking service has been stagnating around the 300 million monthly active users for the past few years, and the company is looking to rekindle user interest in the service.

While in the beginning Twitter was the place where everyone spewed their daily thoughts as to what they were eating, doing, or planning, today's Twitter is more of a real-time news discovery platform.

The company's leadership has embraced this new idea and has signed various partnership agreements that will bring more live events to the platform.