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On May 24, 2016, Twitter
-`announced <https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters>`_
+`announced <https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters>`__
changes to the way that replies and URLs are handled and
-`published plans <https://blog.twitter.com/2016/doing-more-with-140-characters>`_
+`published plans <https://blog.twitter.com/2016/doing-more-with-140-characters>`__
around support for these changes in the Twitter API and initial technical
documentation describing the updates to Tweet objects and API options.\ [#]_
On September 26, 2017, Twitter
-`started testing <https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html>`_
+`started testing <https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html>`__
280 characters for certain languages,\ [#]_ and on November 7, 2017,
-`announced <https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html>`_
+`announced <https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html>`__
that the character limit was being expanded for Tweets in languages where
cramming was an issue.\ [#]_