Twitter increases character limit to 10,000 characters
Blue subscribers can as soon as once more submit longer tweets. This time, Twitter has elevated the restrict to 10,000 characters.
Six years in the past, Twitter first elevated its character restrict from 140 to 280 characters. After the change, the size of posts shared largely remained unchanged. Solely 12 p.c of all tweets in 2018 exceeded the previous character restrict of 140 characters, with only one p.c of tweets reaching the 280 character restrict. Regardless of this, Elon Musk sees a future with more and more longer tweets. In February, the CEO already elevated the restrict as soon as to 4,000 characters. This time it is going to be ceiling greater than doubledto 10,000 characters.
As with the earlier enhance, solely Twitter Blue subscribers can submit longer messages. Non-paying customers will see the longer tweets seem on their timeline. It stays to be seen what number of Blue subscribers will make use of this drawing ceiling. A message with 10,000 characters is about 2,000 phrases. The idea of “Twitter threads” is now not vital for them: they will now merge all messages into one tweet.
Primarily a strategic transfer
For Twitter, the longer messages are primarily a strategic transfer. The social medium hopes that the longer messages will entice customers to be lively on Twitter for longer, and thus additionally have the ability to serve extra commercials.
The rebranding of ‘Tremendous Follows’ to ‘Subscriptions’ ought to contribute to that. The precept of the creator subscription stays the identical: followers can subscribe to a creator and thus acquire entry to unique content material.
Twitter does wish to make the subscriptions extra enticing to creators. For the following twelve months, due to this fact, creators would not have handy over any earnings to Twitter. Twitter says it’s going to solely deduct the prices of the cost suppliers from the quantity to be paid. How a lot cash the creator receives then solely will depend on the quantity that followers are charged month-to-month. The creator can select from 3, 5 and 10 {dollars} per 30 days.
