Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says
Twitter will eventually increase its character limit from the current 280 to 4,000, the company’s new CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter.
In response to a question about 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 character limit increase are not yet known, but previous reports and tweets by Musk have suggested that Twitter may make it easier for users to break up long chains of text 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 tick and other perks like the ability to edit tweets and upload higher-resolution 1080p videos. Twitter Blue will restart 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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