Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of Twitter to increase tweet character limit to 10,000. Twitter launched the first character-length expansion in 2017 when it doubled its 140-character limit to 280.
On Monday, Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk said that the social media giant (Twitter) is performing the task to increase the tweet character limit to 10,000. In a reply to a user’s question, Musk said, “We are extending longform tweets to 10k soon”.
A Twitter user,@ThePrimeagen posted a query on the Tweeter saying, “the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?”, to which Musk replied that the company will soon extend the longform tweets’ character limit.
But Musk did not explain if the new feature would be available only to Twitter Blue subscribers or will be open to non-paid users also. The announcement came a month after Twitter announced to increase in the tweet character limit up to 4,000 characters for the Blue subscribers in the US. It was the second time in the company’s 16-year history that it had squeezed its character count.
According to a Forbes report, Musk had firmly suggested that subscription income is the only way for Twitter to remain financially solvent in the long term. However, Twitter Blue only had about 1,80,000 subscribers as of mid-January, accounting for less than 0.2% of monthly active users.
Ever since the SpaceX CEO took control of the Twitter, he introduced several changes like an $8 paid subscription to a Twitter blue badge, gold and silver ticks, and reinstating banned or controversial accounts.
