On a related note, didn't Twitter recently say that they were excluding links from the 140 char limit? I could have sworn they implemented that, but now I see links taking up space again. What on earth are they up to over there...
They did but I've found its hit or miss sometimes. It's really weird, on my account (been a user since 08') sometimes it doesn't count them and sometimes it truncates longer links and takes the rest of the link and subtracts it from the character count.
Here's the article about them not counting links in character count:
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On a related note, didn't Twitter recently say that they were excluding links from the 140 char limit? I could have sworn they implemented that, but now I see links taking up space again. What on earth are they up to over there...
They did but I've found its hit or miss sometimes. It's really weird, on my account (been a user since 08') sometimes it doesn't count them and sometimes it truncates longer links and takes the rest of the link and subtracts it from the character count.
Here's the article about them not counting links in character count:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/twitter-t...