The Verge:

Tweets are holding steady at 140 characters, but a variety of additions to your tweets will no longer count against that limit. As The Verge reported last week, Twitter said today it was rolling out expanded tweets around the world. Media attachments including images, GIFs, videos, and polls will no longer count against the 140-character limit. Neither will links to quoted tweets.

Twitter has a lot of major problems but removing the pain point of this (relatively) minor problem is a nice little perk.