Report: Twitter to drop links, pics from 140-character limit

Twitter users will soon have more space to craft updates on the social network.

According to a report from Bloomberg, citing an anonymous source, photos and links will no longer count against the 140-character limit used on tweets. The change could arrive in the next couple weeks.

Links can take up to 23 characters of space on a tweet, while images usually take up around 24 characters. Twitter chose 140 characters when it first launched in 2006 so that tweets could fit within the constraints of a text message.

Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at expanding the 140-character limit to 10,000 characters, the current setup for users who send Direct Messages through the service. In a subsequent tweet, Dorsey seemed to back off the idea, and then confirmed the 140-character limit would stay put during a March interview with The Today Show.

Dorsey has been pushing for new ways to make Twitter more accessible and expand its user base, which has posted flat growth for the last several quarters.

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