Yesterday Twitter officially announced that Twitter character limit will count words and words only so media attachments such as GIFs, videos, polls, and images will no longer be considered words, Not only that, when replying to a Tweet,“@names” will no longer count towards the character count.

previously if you were going to post a tweet with any form of media, they’d put you back 20 to 23 characters.

so for people who love posting lots of pictures or other media attachments this will be appealing.