Twitter expands character restrict from 280 to 4,000 (and promptly breaks)
Loquacious folks, rejoice! Twitter simply expanded its transient 280 character restrict to an outsized 4,000… however there’s a catch.
As a way to use wall-o-text-length tweets, you must be a member of Twitter Blue’s month-to-month subscription service, which prices actual cash {dollars}. Speak about a buzzkill, yeah? You additionally should be situated in the US, as different nations don’t have entry to this characteristic but. You’ll be able to peruse the small print within the tweet beneath.
want greater than 280 characters to precise your self?
we all know that plenty of you do… and whereas we love an excellent thread, generally you simply need to Tweet all the things all of sudden. we get that.
so we’re introducing longer Tweets! you’re gonna need to test this out. faucet this 👉… https://t.co/lge9udRzLE
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) February 8, 2023
The thought is to remove Twitter threads, that are longer ponderings that get damaged up into shorter tweets. Personally, I choose shorter tweets as a result of that’s what drew me to this social media platform within the first place. I didn’t should sift via paragraphs upon paragraphs to get the knowledge I needed. Easy and to the purpose. That’s what Twitter was once. These days, like most people, I’ve no concept what the hell is occurring with it.
Twitter has been a significant trash fireplace for fairly a while now. Whether or not they’re leaking information from 200 million customers or slamming third-party shoppers with the ban hammer, the social media platform is the digital wild, wild west. Final evening, shortly after rolling out the brand new character rely and controversial API adjustments, Twitter suffered from widespread technical points that prevented of us from tweeting or following new folks for a number of hours.
Though the problem has since been resolved, Twitter seems to get increasingly unstable by the second. Will it will definitely implode? Who is aware of. Both approach, Elon Musk’s Twitter is very arduous to belief proper now although.
