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The title is misleading. Actual text:

"Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters."

Otherwise you could post a tweet with 141 URLs separated by 140 spaces, and only the spaces count.

Thanks, we updated the title from “URLs no longer count toward your 140 characters”. Unfortunately since the whole tweet doesn't fit in the title, we'll assume the features are sorted by importance.

The updated title is incorrect. Those features have been part of twitter before this, they just don't count towards the character limit anymore.

Thank you! Updated again.

I think it is meant to parse as "[the hidden urls in] (photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets) no longer count towards your limit", not "photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and (Quote Tweets no longer count towards your limit)", because those first 4 things have existed for a long time on twitter. The original title was only wrong because it is only a limited set of URLs that don't count, but the title implied all do not.

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