Twitter today announced it had finally made changes to its 140-character rule.
The social media giant said changes being introduced from today would allow people to post things like quotes, videos, GIFs and photos without them counting toward your character limit.
When replying to a tweet, @names will also not count towards the character limit.
However, there is no change in the amount of characters links use up.
In a tweet today, the company wrote: "Say more about what's happening!
"Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters."
The changes had been widely trailed last week, but the exact rollout date had not been revealed until now.
Twitter UK managing director Dara Nasr told the Daily Mirror: "We appreciate that the beauty of the platform is the brevity and speed of interactions.
"But sometimes you write a perfectly crafted 139-character tweet and then add a photo or a video to a tweet and it goes over the character limit, and you have to waste time cutting it down."
Earlier this year Twitter stopped using a timeline ordered chronologically and started bumping up some tweets to make them more visible.
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