{"id":180168,"date":"2016-09-20T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=180168"},"modified":"2016-09-20T07:55:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:55:59","slug":"twitter-removes-character-limit-on-additional-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/180168-twitter-removes-character-limit-on-additional-content.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter removes character limit on additional content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/web\/status\/777915304261193728\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Twitter has announced<\/strong><\/a> that photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count towards your 140-character limit.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s latest update will provide users with more freedom, it said, as detailed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Replies:<\/strong>\u00a0@names will no longer count toward the character count.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media attachments:<\/strong>\u00a0Photos, GIFs, videos, polls, Quote Tweets and other media will no longer count as characters within your Tweet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retweet and Quote Tweet yourself:<\/strong>\u00a0Retweet your own Tweets and Quote Tweet yourself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Goodbye, .@:<\/strong> These changes will simplify the rules around Tweets that start with a username. New Tweets that begin with a username will reach all your followers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/179316-deezer-and-twitter-partner-for-music-sharing.html\">Deezer and Twitter partner for music sharing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/179324-twitter-in-live-streaming-partnership.html\">Twitter in live-streaming partnership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count towards your 140-character limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,405],"class_list":["post-180168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180174,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180168\/revisions\/180174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}