Twitter shortens tweets to only 120 characters over security concerns

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ANI: London, Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 at 1110 hrs IST

Micro blogging platform Twitter has asked its members to use fewer characters to express themselves. Previously, including a web link cut the number of characters available in each tweet from the full 140 to 120. Now when Twitter members want to share a URL there are only 118 left in which to ....Read more

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Copy Error

Alok | Thursday , 21 Feb '13 12:39:39 PMReply | Forward

The worst copy error ever to happen! The headline says 177 characters instead of 117. The really bad and stupid mistake is that Twitter allows max 140 characters, so a confusion is so not bound to happen!!