Twitter expands 140-character limit of

Twitter could soon bypass the 140-character limit, without abolishing it. Images and links are therefore no longer be deducted from the total number of characters.

Twitter wants to loosen the 140-character limit, without abolish it.

If it falls or it does not fall? For months speculated the net about a possible end of the 140-character limit on Twitter. Now at least a relaxation of the rigid rule seems to be emerging as Bloomberg reported, citing a person from the environment of Twitter. Apparently it should be possible in the future, even with existing 140-character limit to make longer Tweets.

140 characters plus pictures plus links
For his rule easing to Twitter a trick operated. Have links and pictures counted in Tweets, when it comes to calculating the number of characters, they should keep in future no longer be added. So if you add a picture and a link to his Tweet, still should have available even the full 140 characters for the actual tweet text. So far went through images and links in a tweet about one third of the available characters lost. therefore users had to decide whether to grab an image or a longer text in their Tweet often.

More tweets and users
will enter into force the new rules in the coming weeks. For Twitter, this change could mean a significant increase in tweets with pictures. Whether that also leads to more total tweets and more users for the short message service, will, however, have yet to show. Last stagnated user numbers of Twitter.

Do not worry, the Federal Trojan can not listen to your Cell

Since 22 February, the Federal Trojan is officially in use. With the spyware investigators want to monitor the communications of terrorists. Just stupid, that the program does not work on Android and iOS - and is almost useless otherwise.

The Federal Trojan emerges clearly as "Epic Fail".

Terrorists and criminals have long since reached the digital age and use Messenger as WhatsApp, Telegram or threema for communication. This also the Bundeskriminalamt has recognized and has for 22 February with the Federal Trojan software that you want to be able to monitor the Internet communications on computers and smartphones. However, the Federal Trojan seems to be what
Internet users would generally refer to as "Epic Fail", as now the World reported on Sunday.

Mostly useless Watching software
So is the software for the investigating authorities to be practically useless according to several sources. That begins already with the fact that a communication monitoring only on computers with Windows is possible. Other operating systems like Linux or OS X is not supported. Even more serious is the fact that smartphones can not be monitored by the Federal Trojans because these works neither Android nor iOS.

So far, the trojan read along only with Skype
Even Windows users have to obviously do not particularly worried that the government is reading their chats. As the sources of the World report on Sunday, the Trojan appears in its current form, which is to only work with Skype. Other Messenger can not seem to read along or tap Windows.

The investigators of the police of the Federal Trojan is therefore in the criticism. "Whether jihadists or right-wing extremists. They all communicate via WhatsApp or other instant messenger. Skype listen not bring in these people a lot," said an official of the LKA-Zeitung. In the current form of the monitoring software is hard to use.