Twitter's Chief Executive Officer, Jack Dorsey, thinks new changes will make its social-media platform simpler and more appealing.
* It will no longer count user names sent in reply tweets and media attachments in the 140 character count. It gives the user the full 140-character space.
* When a user wanted to reply to another tweet and have all of his followers see that reply, he had to put a dot in front of the "@" symbol preceding the other user's handle., Without that workaround, Dorsey said, the tweet would only be seen by people following both accounts. Now, the dot is no longer necessary.,
New tweets that begin with a user handle will reach all of that person's followers.,
* Twitter is making it possible for users to retweet, or share, their own tweets, a capability that would let users recirculate a thought that might have gotten lost in the mix, or add another commitment to do it later.,
The inability to do that was an omission Dorsey said befuddled even him.,
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, columnist Yoree Kon says the existing rules governing the length limit sometimes impeded the types of extended conversations that are a core reason to use the service.,
Once users master the new procedures, they will find Twitter easier and more satisfying to use. That's the present goal of the Twitter staff.,
