Twitter to eliminate photos and video from 140-character limit

Among the changes, you'll soon be able to quote and retweet yourself, while infamous '.@' will be no more

The rumours are true: Twitter is going to stop counting photos and videos in its 140-character limit.

But the changes go far beyond what was leaked to Bloomberg in mid-May, and will alter many of the rules that users of the service have come to take for granted.