In order to win the trust of users, Twitter has decided to give them more space to talk and share. The company announced that ease the limit of 140 characters doing away with some rules that created more confusion than anything else, as leaked a few days ago.
Essentially the 140 characters will be counted only text. This means that when you “tags you” a person using the @ symbol, its name will not be counted; also Photos, videos, GIFs and surveys are no longer part of the count towards the known limit has been explained on the official blog. In this way, in short, Twitter will facilitate group conversations because you can insert a variety of people without having to worry about reaching the limit and it will give more space to the words.
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Other rules were changed. If previously you had to insert a point before the @ sign to the response to a user’s tweet was visible to all, with the new rules it will not be necessary: the tweets will be visible to all, unless the profile settings not otherwise predicted . In addition, you can cite or retweeting a tweet own previously published.
These changes will not be instantaneous and will come “in the next few months” . In the near future, in addition, the company plans further changes to the way you use Twitter: “In addition to the changes described above, we plan to help you achieve more with your tweets. We are exploring new ways to simplify the current uses and add new ones without compromising the brevity and unique speeds that make Twitter the best place to comment live, stay connected and talk. “
The important precedent has been modified the addition of an algorithmic timeline, ie based on the relevance of other users’ tweets rather than on history. Initially greeted with controversy because of the approach to Facebook, in fact this feature is widely used (estimated at 98 percent of users) as explained by CEO Jack Dorsey in the last fiscal report.
Twitter is in a delicate phase, in which struggle to find new users. While Facebook continues to fly, has now reached 1.6 billion users worldwide, Twitter is at a standstill to 310 million monthly active users. In particular, the social network is stuck between not disappoint current users misinterpreting what is and what characterizes it and having to attract new people by introducing new functionality or modifying existing ones.
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