Maximum tweet length to 10,000
The flag can be raised for fervent Twitter users with a Blue subscription. Finally, they can take advantage of the ability to write longer tweets.
Long-felt frustration finally addressed
A major frustration of Twitter users is the limited amount of characters you can use to share your wisdom with the world. That has now come to an end. From now on ten thousand characters are possible. To give you an idea, that’s about the number of characters in a long article of two thousand words. It will therefore be possible to publish a complete article on Twitter. Pieces of text can also be used Fat and in italics are printed.
Previously, a long text could only be posted by opening a thread, which readers then had to scroll through. It is true that there were special Twitter apps such as Unroll with which you can convert the series of tweets into a page, but none of that is very user-friendly. And formatting texts is also a no-go.
Hot breath from Substack
Musk was probably inspired to this measure by Substack’s decision. This other social media site that focuses mainly on technical questions and answers from a technical audience decided to offer a Twitter-like functionality. After blocking links to Substack (a Musk tactic we already know from the Mastodon farce), Musk now seems to have found a more positive way to compete.
For now only for Twitter Blue users
Avid Twitterers need not be afraid that the character of Twitter will change. At the moment, the feature is only open to paying members, i.e. people with a Twitter Blue subscription. At the moment there are not very many: several hundred thousand to hundreds of millions of Twitter users. And let’s be honest. The nice thing about Twitter is that you have to make your point in a short text. There are other media for longer texts.
