Twitter may cut photos and links from 140-character limit, report says

Here's a bit of good news for Twitter power users: the platform may no longer count photos and links as a part of its 140-character limit.

If true, the change would give users on the short-messaging service far more flexibility in sharing out information. 

Twitter itself hasn't announced the change, but a Bloomberg report citing sources close to the matter said the update could go live in the next two weeks. The news comes a few months after CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter was experimenting with how it displays text on the platform, but later promised the 140-character limit would stay intact.

At present, a photo accounts for for 24 characters and a link takes up 23 characters, even if the link itself is shorter than that amount. By freeing up these characters, the platform could encourage users to share more details and post more photos in one tweet.

By allowing photos not to take up too much space, the move could give Twitter a spike in photo memes and tweet storms in the form of message screenshots on the service.

"We don't comment on rumors or speculation," a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable when asked about the reported change. 

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