Twitter Will Soon Stop Counting Links & Images Toward a Tweet's 140-Character Limit

Twitter's 140-character limit for tweets has been the social media platform's most distinguishing characteristic from the get-go, so it seemed especially odd when rumors surfaced back in January that Jack Dorsey and company were considering boosting that limit to 10,000 characters -- effectively removing the character limit entirely and killing off tweetstorms in the process. Thankfully, that move never came to fruition, but Twitter is planning on making individual tweets -- and the platform as ...