It seems that Elon Musk You no longer know what else to do to get new users for Twitter Blue, you know, the paid subscription to the social network that, since the billionaire took over his property, brings together the vast majority of the most anticipated news. This, we have already commented on previous occasions, values the paid user, which is logical and understandable, but of course, it must be in its fair measure, since they must remember that their growth and success is due to all users, and that a drop in their number can do harm.
Be that as it may, at the beginning of February the already announced arrival of the longer tweets, of up to 4,000 characters, was confirmed. Let’s remember that this function was already in the pipeline for months, and that it was also scaling in the maximum size of the same, since at first there was talk of up to 1,000 charactersa huge jump from the standard maximum size (280 characters) but somehow still would have remained more or less true to the original spirit of Twitter which, remember, originally had a limit of 140 characters per message.
Thus, for about two months now, Twitter Blue users have been able to post large messages, although, to be honest, in my Twitter experience at this time I have hardly seen messages that took advantage of said limit. Be careful, I am not saying that there are not, I am just saying that I have the feeling that the volume of use of this function is rather low. And I understand it, of course, since it goes precisely against what I have commented in the previous paragraph, the original spirit of the social network.
However, it seems that there are those who find that limit too low. Thus, as we can read in The Verge, Twitter has increased the maximum size of Twitter Blue messages to 10,000 characters. Of course, to facilitate its reading it has also included the possibility of highlighting parts of the text using bold and italics. Quite a detail, because 10,000 characters like this, in full and dry paper, becomes a bit arduous.
In case you’re wondering (and it would be normal, since people don’t usually count the letters of what they read), the full text of this news has a total of 2,610 characters, to give you an idea of the nonsense that such an outrageous limit is for the social network. Unless Elon Musk is looking to compete with blogging platforms like Substack (and in that case he has quite a few points against him), I don’t see any point in this. But, of course, we are talking about Musk’s new Twitter, where anything is possible.
