140 chars is great.. shouldn't change - but urls, images, and hashtags and @users shouldn't count (hashtags may have a limit of 5-10 per tweet but all of those

140 chars is great.. shouldn't change - but urls, images, and hashtags and @users shouldn't count (hashtags may have a limit of 5-10 per tweet but all of those should be consider meta-data about the tweet and who it's geared towards and who it personally addresses. The msg itself should remain 140 chars.