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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey indicates controversial character limit chnage may be reversed

on Apr 3, 2017 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has indicated that some controversial updates to the micro-blogging platform may be reversed by tweeting: ‘A few steps forward, some back’.

The intervention follows a backlash against how changes to @replies between users are displayed, principally by increasing the defacto character limit in tweets directed at specific people by no longer counting their username amongst the 140 characters.

Rolling out today: use all 140 characters for replies, and a cleaner focus on the text of a conversation instead of addressing syntax https://t.co/qAHQy1UtWu

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Source: The Drum