Expansion of Twitter's character limitation will be implemented on the weekend, Tweet user names etc will not be counted

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Twitter is to be able to tweet more texts, such as the user name, photo, GIF image, video, voting, cited tweets included in tweets in Twitter in May 2016 will no longer be counted as 140 character limit It was announcing. Although it was predicted that expansion of these character number restrictions will be done within a few months, the IT news site · The Verge reported that this change will begin on September 19.

Twitter's new, longer tweets are coming September 19th - The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/12/12891562/twitter-tweets-140-characters-expand-photos


The Verge confirmed that relaxation of the restriction on the number of characters of tweets that had been foretold will be started on September 19th local time from multiple sources familiar with Twitter's business. However, it seems that the condition of "@ user name, photo, GIF image, video, voting, cited tweets" originally announced may be changed.

It is expected to be released around Tuesday, September 20th in Japan time, and it is expected that it will be able to do long tweets with restrictions on the number of characters since the beginning of the week. However, as new features of Twitter are being added step by step, it is necessary to be aware that sometimes it is not reflected in your app even on that day.