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Caveats coming to Twitter’s hard 140-character rule
August 12, 2025
Twitter’s long-standing policy has been one of hard-lined adherence to a strict 140-character rule regarding tweet length. Well, you know, except for that time not so long ago when they lost their minds and started toying around withexpanding that length to 10,000 characters. We heard a rumor that Twitter would be bringing changes to their character limit, specifically thatlinks and photos would no longer contribute to the count. It looks like at least one of those turned out to be true, but the snappy social site is also going to be rolling out some additional exceptions. Take a look attheir list:
So it looks like links are still going to count toward your character limit after all, but we’re getting some unexpected exceptions to make tweet-life even easier. Altogether, these changes should loosen the collar around the neck of your Twitter diction without fundamentally overhauling the platform. The company says they are making these looming changes public so that developers can start making alterations to their apps to accommodate for the new way Twitter will be counting characters.
We think this is a pretty sensible move on the part of the social giant, but what is your opinion? Are you a tweet purist who sees this as an unholy compromise, or are these caveats something that should have been around for years? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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