Twitter has a lot of issues, to the extent that the future of Twitter as a service is in jeopardy if certain things aren’t fixed. Namely, the way Twitter handles harassment usually means that you need to have a certain level of fame outside of social media in order to get help, and even then there’s no guarantee anything will happen. In Twitter’s defense, though, it has shown in the past that it’s willing to make changes, even if the changes often seem arbitrary or are actively hated by most users. Now, Twitter has unleashed its latest big change, and though it won’t do anything to curb harassment (of course), there’s a good chance everybody won’t instantly hate it.
This new tweak is based around Twitter’s 140-character limit, which has now been altered so that photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and quoted tweets no longer count toward that number. The idea is that this will make Twitter easier to use, presumably because some people had a hard time understanding why a photo would count as words. But this TechCrunch story on the intricacies of the new feature makes it seem even more complicated than it was before.