You may have fewer precious characters in your tweets, starting now

It's happened to bags of snack chips on the grocery shelves, and now it's happening to the snack chip of communication: Starting today, you'll be getting fewer characters in your tweets — at least if you need a link to make your tweet complete. The condensed links to pictures, stories and other Internet flotsam you love to include with your witty alerts will now take up a bit more space, so two characters worth of commentary has to go, leaving you with just 117 or 118 precious keystrokes. Tweets without links still have the 140-character ceiling, but you linking dinosaurs who have resisted using "2" for "to" now go on the endangered species list. [Source]

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