Twitter Simplifying Rules

Twitter Simplifying More Rules

According to Yoree Koh (at yoree.koh@wsj.com) at the Wall Street Journal (May 25, 2016): Twitter is continuing to use its 140-character limit, but the company announced several changes to the social media platform --- making it ". . . simpler and more appealing."

According to the Journal, Twitter will " . . . no longer count usernames sent in reply tweets and media attachments." This will allow users to move things along while allowing the sender to fully express a thought with the media or their username.

According to the Journal, Twitter's base has been decreasing quarterly, and it's CEO, Jack Dorsey, is looking to enliven its users through progressive changes over the coming year.

"For instance, when a Twitter user wanted to reply to another tweet and have all of his followers see that reply, he had to know to put a dot in front of the “@” symbol preceding the other user’s handle—without that workaround, the tweet would only be seen by people who follow both accounts."

And another change WSJ says is, "Twitter also is now making it possible for users to retweet, or share, their own tweets, a capability that would let users recirculate a thought that might have gotten lost in the mix or add another comment to it later. The inability to do that was an omission that Mr. Dorsey said befuddled even him."