Tweeting gets harder: Chalk up two more lost characters
Twitter said today that it will implement a change in February that will extend the number of characters used in its automatic t.co link shortener by two.
Such a move may seem insignificant to the average Twitter user, but it does mean that there will be two fewer characters available under the 140-character limit in a tweet.
Twitter had no comment on the rationale behind the switch, but on its blog for developers, it simply spelled out the plans. "We're going to be extending the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters … Read more