140 no more: With longer links, now tweet in less than 117 characters - Firstpost

Would you like to make Firstpost your default homepage?   Yes | No There's some bad news for those of you who like sharing links on Twitter and want to tweet about it. Twitter's t.co link wrapper,which the default link shortener, that appears when you tweet out a link, is all set to get longer from today. In a developer blog post which was put in December, Twitter had announced that it was increasing the length of their link shorterner. The post states: We'd like to share some upcoming changes to our t.co link wrapper with the ecosystem. We're going to be extending the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs, and 21 to 23 characters for https URLs. Representational Image. Getty Images To give everyone enough time to update their applications, this change won't go into effect for two months – so please consider this a heads up. The change takes place  today on 20 February and Twitter will start generating and returning t.co URLs with this new maximum length. So how does this affect you? Well if you do share a lot of links using Twitter's t.co, the length of the short-link will increase which means your tweet will have less remaining characters. However if you are using bit.ly or TinyUrl, you don't have to worry about t.co. Firstpost encourages open discussion and debate, but please adhere to the rules below, before posting. Comments that are found to be in violation of any one or more of the guidelines will be automatically deleted: Personal attacks/name calling will not be tolerated. This applies to comments directed at the author, other commenters and other politicians/public figures Please do not post comments that target a specific community, caste, nationality or religion. While you do not have to use your real name, any commenters using any Firstpost writer's name will be deleted, and the commenter banned from participating in any future discussions. Comments will be moderated for abusive and offensive language. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEmCm-BLxLAs77icCDjFARO0Az1Kw&url=http://www.firstpost.com/tech/140-no-more-with-longer-links-now-tweet-in-less-than-117-characters-634080.html

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