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February 20, 2013 01:00 pm GMT

Twitter Now Reducing Some Tweets To 117 Characters


If youre tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter.

Starting Wednesday, any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links.

First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitters t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs and from 21 to 23 characters for https URLs.

In short, the condensed links now take up a bit more space, leaving you with a little less space to add commentary with them. In total, the update represents a two-character drop per tweet.

Applications that use t.co wrapped lengths are required to accommodate the new lengths s…
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