Twitter changes behavior after submitting a research paper about it to conference. What to do? Twitter announced it would begin distancing itself from the requirement that all tweets could only contain 140 characters by no longer counting some things – like media attachments or @ replies – towards the character count.

I am doing research in that area of social media analysis, and I have submitted a research paper to a conference in which I have mentioned in the introduction a little about the Twitter character count restriction (limited to 140 characters), which has since been updated to let users write more than that.


What happens now when the reviewer/referee reads my input in the paper and sees that the regulation has been updated?  Will they ask me to update it or simply accept or reject it?
Technology and technology based applications keep changing all the time, and frequently so.

Research methodology requires that you document these changes as they happen and annotate all references with dates. For example, you may add information that can act as a sort of disclaimer: For example: 


  N.B: As of March 30, 2017, Twitter discontinued its 140 characters
  limit for replies. At the time of submission of this paper, the 140 Characters limit was still in force.