Twitter is making it easy for its users to communicate on its platform using 140 characters. From today, the micro blogging platform will stop counting usernames as part of the 140 character limit when you’re replying to tweets.
Now, when you reply to an individual or multiple people in a tweet, those mentions will be seen above the tweet and not as a part of it. You will no longer see automatic @metions in the compose box at the time of replying. The idea is to allows users make most of the valuable 140 character limit. You can tap on “Replying to…” to easily see and control who is part of your conversation. While reading a conversation, you will actually see what people are saying, rather than seeing multiple @usernames at the start of a tweet.
The latest update is rolling out for Twitter mobile apps, web as well as TweetDeck. Twitter has been working hard to make conversations easier on its platform. Last year in September, the company stopped counting photos, videos, quote tweets and polls from the 140-character limit.