Twitter might broaden its character restrict from 280, in keeping with a tweet by new proprietor Elon Musk. The world’s richest man and Twitter’s new CEO responded to a consumer on the microblogging platform requesting the upper character restrict, stating that it was a part of the corporate’s plan. Twitter can also be engaged on including encrypted direct messages (DMs), and cost companies, in accordance a set of slides just lately shared by Musk on Twitter. Nonetheless, it’s at the moment unclear whether or not the elevated character restrict would be the identical because the longform tweet characteristic teased by the corporate’s CEO.
On Monday, Musk responded to a Twitter consumer asking him to broaden the 280-character restrict for on tweets on Twitter to 1,000 characters. Musk responded, stating :It is on the todo listing.”
Twitter, which is known as a “microblogging service”, initially had a 140-character restrict for tweets, which was expanded to 280 characters in 2017. On the time, the corporate’s weblog acknowledged that “many individuals Tweeted the complete 280 restrict as a result of it was new and novel, however quickly after behaviour normalised…We noticed when folks wanted to make use of greater than 140 characters, they Tweeted extra simply and extra usually.”
The platform is among the few companies that limits customers’ posts to some hundred characters. Rival Facebook permit customers to add posts with hundreds of characters.
Musk has proven curiosity within the concept of accelerating the character restrict on a variety of events since his takeover of the platform, as per a report by Mashable.
On November 27, a Twitter consumer instructed to Musk to extend the platform’s phrase restrict from 280 to 420. “Good concept” Musk wrote in response.
Previous to that, one other consumer had instructed “do away with character limits,” to which Musk responded: “Completely”.
Musk just lately announced one other main change for the platform with its multi-coloured verification system. A brand new three-coloured verification verify mark system would substitute the earlier ‘Twitter Blue’ service which needed to be pulled off inside days of its launch attributable to rising variety of accounts impersonating well-known manufacturers and personalities whereas carrying the ‘verified’ verify. The brand new Twitter Blue verification service will tentatively be relaunched on December 2, in keeping with Musk.
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