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Twitter's new chief, Elon Musk, said Monday that the social media giant was working to expand the character limit for tweets to 10,000. A Twitter user, @ThePrimeagen, posted a query on the platform saying "the developer community and I were wondering if you could add blocks of code to tweets," to which Musk replied that the company would be expanding the character limit soon. for long tweets. . However, Musk did not specify whether the new feature will be available only to Twitter Blue subscribers or open to non-paying users as well.
The announcement came a month after the microblogging platform announced that it would increase the character limit on tweets to 4,000 characters for Blue subscribers in the United States. This was the second time in the company's 16-year history that it changed its character count. Twitter introduced the first character length extension in 2017, when it doubled its 140 character limit to 280.
According to a Forbes report (past the paywall article), Musk had strongly suggested that subscription revenue is the only way for Twitter to remain financially solvent in the long term. However, Twitter Blue only had around 180,000 followers in mid-January, which is less than 0.2% of monthly active users.
Since the CEO of SpaceX took over the microblogging site, he has introduced several changes, such as an $8 paid Twitter blue badge subscription, gold and silver ticks, reinstatement of banned or controversial accounts. He said he saw a path for Twitter to have more than a billion monthly users in 12 to 18 months.
