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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by return0 on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:08PM (#11710027)
Maybe they were still accounting for the tiny percentage of SMS users.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by bcherry on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:45PM (#11710446)
that's correct. don't know about today, but SMS users were still fairly substantial in 2011 when Twitter introduced native photo uploads. they wanted to be able to include the photo URL in the SMS.
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