Twitter 10,000 characters in a tweet?
Twitter, one of the world’s largest and most influential social media networks, will soon let users write posts up to 10,000 characters, instead of the current 140 character limit.
Twitter’s co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said, “We’re not going to be shy about building more utility and power into Twitter for people”
“As long as it’s consistent with what people want to do, we’re going to explore it.”
— Jack (@jack) January 5, 2016
Industry blog re/code said sources had told their reporters that Twitter has been building a new feature to allow long-form writing for some time.
“Twitter is building a new feature that will allow users to tweet things longer than the traditional 140-character limit, and the company is targeting a launch date toward the end of Q1.”
“Clicking on the tweets would then expand them to reveal more content. The point of this is to keep the same look and feel for your timeline, although this design is not necessarily final, sources say.
The design aspect is key. Making Tweets bigger by adding more content or bigger pictures has diminished user engagement in the past, according to one source.”
Twitter 10,000 characters – reaction
Major moments in history that changed everything: * Films having sound * Television going color * Tweets allowing 10,000 characters
— Aaron Levie (@levie) January 6, 2016
Why is Twitter thinking about adding a 10,000 character limit? Everything is perfect just how it is.
— Doug Censor Martin (@FaZe_Censor) January 5, 2016
Twitter might kill its 140 character limit and allow 10,000 characters in an attempt to be more like Game of Thrones.
— Darth Vader (@DepressedDarth) January 5, 2016
To the person who thought a 10,000 character limit on Twitter would be a good idea… pic.twitter.com/Xkg1iNlPct
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) January 5, 2016
If Twitter moves to 10,000 characters per tweet, what do I do with my unexpected talent of fitting communications in exactly 140 characters?
— Rami Ismail (@tha_rami) January 5, 2016
Investors didn’t like the Twitter 10,000 characters news
Twitter shares plummet on rumored shift to 10,000-character tweets https://t.co/Xz5hqz4mnK
— Guardian Tech (@guardiantech) January 5, 2016
