Twitter is going to change 140 chars limit to 164?

We simply can't see benefit of this. On some blogs I have found info that links and media will not count anymore and there will be amazing 24 chars more to each tweet. This change looks like 'we are bored, and we have nothing to do, but reinventing the weel. Dear Twitter this is comlpletely pointless!!!

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