When it comes to journalism you always want to engage your audience in the first sentence. Making those first few words interesting and catching has always been a bit challenging, especially when you have to get the audience attention with 140 characters. But now with Twitter’s new update, you can say more without counting off characters when mentioning handles. The new twitter update allows you to mention handles without having it count within the 140 character limit.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-character-limit
