[tptacek]

I don't know if this was the original Techcrunch title, but it is extraordinarily misleading. The proper title is the current article title:

Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules

[dang]

Thanks, we restored the original title.

Submitters: please do not rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please especially don't rewrite them to make them more misleading and linkbait. (Submitted title was "Twitter ditches 140 character limit".)

[Tomte]

Apropos character limits: maybe you could stop counting (2001) etc. towards the 80 character limit in submissions?

Because a few times I have left out the year since I couldn't find a good shorter title, and then you added the year afterwards. I would have done that myself. :-)

[dang]

We can't get around that limit any more than you can!

Currently the only thing that's allowed to exceed the limit is "[pdf]" but yes, it should probably include "(year)" and "[video]".