Twitter to stop counting photos and links in 140-character limit, breaching site's most defining feature

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Twitter could be about to drastically change the way its character limits work. At the time, many suggested that the site would keep its characteristic limit – but that it would gradually exclude various things from it, with longer posts eventually possible as attachments. Twitter’s character limit was originally devised as a way of fitting tweets into the SMS character limit. When Twitter earlier suggested that it might expand the character limit – all the way to potentially 10,000 character tweets – Twitter users have reacted angrily and argued that the limit is central to the form.