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Twitter relaxes 140-character limit

Posted at 10:46 PM, Sep 19, 2016
and last updated 2016-09-20 01:47:39-04

Tweeters now have a little more wiggle room with their posts.

Starting Monday, photos, gifs, videos, polls or quotes no longer have an impact on the 140-character count in a tweet.

However, links will remain part of the Twitter character count.