<story><title>Twitter stops counting replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/twitter-stops-counting-replies-towards-its-140-characters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bluetidepro</author><text>&amp;gt; While Twitter is making these changes as a means of trying to simplify its service for users, it’s really just swapping out one set of rules for another. And that can be super confusing [link a].&lt;p&gt;This is spot on and buried further down the article. To me, the UX of this change just makes Twitter even more complicated now. Their UI&amp;#x2F;UX is getting so bogged down with rules that it&amp;#x27;s incredibly hard to explain Twitter to a new user. It&amp;#x27;s even confusing for a current active Twitter user to keep track of what&amp;#x27;s what.&lt;p&gt;I recently helped a friend get setup to use Twitter and until I had to explain it out loud for the first time to someone who didn&amp;#x27;t already use the service, I never realized how confusing all the rules are. They are not black and white like they used to be, and it&amp;#x27;s not easy to follow.&lt;p&gt;[link a] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@sarahperez&amp;#x2F;twitter-so-easy-its-hard-e9ffc03e8bbb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;medium.com&amp;#x2F;@sarahperez&amp;#x2F;twitter-so-easy-its-hard-e9ff...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter stops counting replies towards its 140 characters on web and mobile</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/twitter-stops-counting-replies-towards-its-140-characters/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jackschultz</author><text>Funny, I literally just noticed this 3 minutes ago. Was replying to a tweet with two people on the reply but couldn&amp;#x27;t figure out how to get what I was trying to say under the limit so I clicked out of reply. Then I decided to try again and was confused at why the auto reply names that are usually there were gone.&lt;p&gt;Huge fan of this, being able to express more of what you want to respond about is great.</text></comment>