Twitter announced the change last May. Since then we haven't had news, but it appears the change will become reality on September 19.
The company will not completely eliminate the 140-character limit, it will simply change the way it counts characters, as we have seen it do in the past.
For example: the URLs that used to count the characters in their entirety.
This gave rise to an entire ecosystem of URL shorteners, until the company decided to integrate a URL shortening system into Twitter itself in 2010.
The new changes are similar.
The way it counts characters changes, without altering the core idea of the site: 140‑character messages. However, the list of exceptions to the 140‑character limit just keeps growing. So from September 19 characters won’t be charged for embedding each media (images or videos) nor for the characters of replies.
We will see it in practice very soon, together with the creative ideas of its users who try to scramble the words in every way so that their post makes sense. It should be noted that the main idea of the company with the 140 characters established the site as a platform for very fast information.
