Twitter stops counting usernames in replies toward the 140-character limit

PC World
Mar 30, 2017, 12:11 pm54 pts
Twitter’s 140-character limit is essential to its existence, but the company realizes how annoying it can be to trim your thoughts when composing a reply because the person you’re chatting with has a long username. Twitter has decided to no longer count a username toward your 140 characters, a change now…

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