Two useful new Twitter features, first announced in May, have just gone live.
The first is that links and photos and other media no longer count toward the 140-character limit (note it's being rolled out progressively, so you might not see the advantage immediately).
The second is more subtle. You no longer have to put a full-stop or other character in front of a tweet that you begin with a Twitter handle.
For example, before if I tweeted:
@Phil_Goff is sleepwalking to victory
only people who followed both myself and the Mayoral candidate would see the tweet, because Twitter assumed any Tweet starting with a mention was a reply).
Bunging in a full stop:
.@Phil_Goff is sleepwalking to victory
was a way to skirt this restriction and let all your followers see the tweet.
Now, you no longer need that full-stop.
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Two useful new features go live on Twitter
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