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Twitter users will now have all 140 characters available to them when replying to tweets.
The social networking giant has confirmed the change, which will see the names of those a user is replying to appear above the text rather than in the tweet itself, which Twitter says leaves “more characters to have conversations”.
The site has already removed character limits from Direct Messages sent privately between users, as well as no longer counting images and other media attached to tweets as part of the character limit in an attempt to improve the service.
“It’s now easier to follow a conversation, so you can focus on what a discussion is about, and who is having it,” Twitter’s Sasank Reddy wrote in a blog post announcing the change.
“Also, with all 140 characters for your replies, you have more room to participate in group conversations.
“The updates we’re making today are based on feedback from all of you as well as research and experimentation. In our tests of this new experience, we found that people engage more with conversations on Twitter.”
The social media site has struggled to attract new users to its service, which founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey has previously admitted remains “confusing” to some people.
Twitter currently has around 313 million monthly active users, compared to rival Facebook’s more than 1.86 billion.
