Now on Twitter: 140 characters for replies

In efforts to allow people to express more with 140 characters, Twitter has introduced the Retweet and Quote Tweet function to enable people to share a reflective thought or easily Retweet a Tweet that went unnoticed.

Following these updates now, when people reply to someone or a group, those @usernames won’t count toward the Tweet’s 140 characters.

With this change, Twitter has simplified conversations in a few ways:

● Who people are replying to will appear above the Tweet text rather than within the Tweet text itself, so there are more characters to have conversations.

● Also, people can tap on “Replying to…” to easily see and control who’s part of their conversation.

● When reading a conversation, people will actually see what others are saying, rather than seeing lots of @usernames at the start of a Tweet.