Twitter is set to stop counting pictures and links in its 140-character limit.

The move, yet to be publically announced, will mean tweeters will benefit from up to 47 additional characters in their tweets. Short links currently use up 23 charactersand images take up 24.

Bloomberg, who first revealed the news, said the company had considered raising the character limit, initially implemented to reflect limits on SMS text messages, to as many as 10,000 characters.