If you’re planning on tweeting out a URL with your tweet – It just got a shorter.
Starting today, tweets sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links!
First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs and from 21 to 23 characters for https URLs.
In short, the condensed links now take up a bit more space, leaving you with a little less space to add commentary with them. In total, the update represents a two-character drop per tweet.
Applications that use t.co wrapped lengths are required to accommodate the new lengths starting Wednesday.
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