September 2016 – Archer Digital

Monthly Archives: September 2016

Say more on Twitter! Usernames & images will no longer count against 140-character limit

Twitter lets you say more with the same charcter limit

Twitter Inc. is making a major shift in how it counts characters in Tweets, giving users more freedom to compose longer messages. It’s expanding the number of things you can post in a 140-character tweet, without expanding the number of characters.

It plans to do so within the next few months, usernames, quoted tweets, photos, and other media attachments will no longer count against the tweet’s 140-character limit.

6 Reasons why we think the Premier League re-brand is a roaring success!

Premier League unveiled a new visual identity for post-Barclays era, and we think it’s a roaring success, this is why:

New visuals of the Premier league rebrand

The new Premier League visual identity, courtesy of DesignStudio, to be used from the 2016/17 season. The brand visuals had started being used early on in the year even before the premier league kicked off.

With such a monolithic presence on the world footballing landscape, this new rebrand has garnered worldwide attention and of course – as with all major rebrands – an outpouring of opinions.

The new visual identity is devoid of the previous sponsor Barclays, and as such a the new identity features a simpler layout – which interestingly doesn’t even include a football.