Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says

[MacRumors]

Twitter will eventually increase its character limit from the current 280 to 4,000, the company's new CEO, Elon Musk, has confirmed on Twitter.

In reply to a question whether rumored plans for Twitter to increase the character limit to 4,000 were true, Musk responded "Yes," without providing additional information. Twitter originally had a character limit of 140 before it was increased to 280 in 2017.

The exact details of the increase in character limit are not yet known, but previous reports and tweets by Musk suggested Twitter may make it easier for users to break up long chains of texts into multiple tweets part of a thread. It seems that an increase to 4,000 characters would eliminate that idea, and users could simply post longer blocks of text in single posts.

Twitter announced over the weekend that it plans to relaunch its Twitter Blue subscription service on Monday, which will offer users a verified blue checkmark and other perks such as the ability to edit tweets and upload higher-resolution 1080p videos. Twitter Blue will relaunch with a higher price of $11/month for iPhone users after Musk criticized Apple's 30% commission taken from in-app purchases.

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[Powerguru]

Yes, this will help the ranters. And would be easy to ignore.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

So, no longer tweets then. Just boring long essays with just more hate crime disguised…

 

[samifathi]

Not sure how this is Mac or even Apple rumor at all

We often cover things related to apps/services outside of just Apple-related things, and Twitter is notable for iPhone users. Feedback is taken though!

 

[djcerla]

A boomer’s boon.

 

[haydn!]

Folks just need to stop giving this buffoon airtime. Twitter is dead.

 

[Robert.Walter]

So now folks don’t have to distill their thoughts down to their essence.

So much for that USP.

 

[5580463]

New features aside, twitter web app is much faster for me these days.

 

[adammusic]

It’s like he’s actively doing every single terrible thing possible to the app instead of doing anything everyone wants.
Trends are completely ruined, it’s all old trends all day & night, like how weekend trends work.
Clicking not interested still doesn’t work, since its inception.
No customization options.
More ads.
Pay for less ads, still ads.
More hate speech.
A trillion more bots.

What was already a hell site, is now an even worse hell site.

Why is it so difficult to do good things.

The main thing I’ve always wanted is to be able to click a trending topic and immediately see why that topic is trending.
Not 10 posts about Elon changing the heart icon to a Tesla logo.
Or 5 Denzel gifs.
And 400 bot comments.
Only to never find out why that topic is trending.
Theres only like 100 trending topics a day. Just manually hire someone to do that.

 

[fatdickie]

Clever business move. There are a lot of smart people on Twitter who will be able to charge more for access to their insightful long-form content. Elon gets a cut on every transaction.

 

[Michael Scrip]

From micro-blogging to, uh, regular blogging.

 

[Shirasaki]

4000 character limit wow....
I can write my graduation thesis on this one, with full LaTeX support kekw.
What's next? Removing character limit?
Also, I have a sense this 4000-character thing is going to be behind a paywall as well.
Adults are just bigger babies.

 

[sunapple]

These “new feature” posts are free ads for Twitter. Elon needs to maintain hype that’s definitely faded.

 

[and 1989 others]

From micro-blogging to, uh, regular blogging.

I was thinking similar when reading this. Twitter, now the world largest blogging website.

Still most people will have nothing insightful to say, but with 4k characters.

 

[goobot]

Jeez Elon is gana ruin himself and twitter at this rate

 

[MacGizmo]

LOL. There's nothing ANYONE has to say that would make me read 4k characters on Twitter. Mostly because nobody on Twitter that's intelligent would need 4k characters to say what they have to say.

 

[TechRunner]

From micro-blogging to, uh, regular blogging.

Exactly. I have an actual blog for those times when I want to bore/annoy people in long form

 

[Satjiv's one click]

You know how spicy the next Twitter Files will be when you have to expand the character limit to fit the disgraceful things Twitter did.

 

[Pezimak]

Blimey! People will be writing essays on there. Confused by this as it doesn’t seem to really be what Twitter was meant for?

 

[DEXTERITY]

New features aside, twitter web app is much faster for me these days.

Because nobody is using it anymore

 

[Skyscraperfan]

That means that we can read much less tweets per minute.

 

[BanjoDudeAhoy]

So, it’s just gonna be Facebook with (I guess) slightly younger people then?

Wasn’t the whole point of Twitter the short form posts?
Sometimes it feels like the guy is trying to run it into the ground.

 

[DreadedFun]

New features aside, twitter web app is much faster for me these days.

A month since Musk takeover, a month for people's accounts to get deleted. There is just more capacity in the system now 🥴

 

[DrJR]

I can't figure out what it is that Twitter "does"? I did Facebook off/on till 2014 and determined it useless. I never did "Tweet", but had an account once and it looked like internet trash strewn all over a digital highway; a wasteland. Why do people spend time looking at it? I read in the papers that Elon Mask bought it; friends and family can't shut up about it. Why is it such an ordeal it is on MacRumors?

 

[krspkbl]

Good news!

Always thought the character limit was dumb. Maybe in the very early days it made sense but I don't see why users should be limited.

I know people like to hate on Elon, and I get it, but Twitter is getting better with him in control. I saw a lot of people moving to Mastodon and I joined but the place is dead. Well, there are people posting but they are nobodies (Nobody I follow on Twitter is on it) AND most of the time they are talking about how much they hate Twitter.