Is Twitter thinking of doing away with the 140-character-count? According to Re/Code, longer tweets could be on the horizon, tweets as high as 10,000 characters.
According to Slate however, Twitter isn’t exactly raising the character limit, but introducing a new product called Beyond 140. Essentially, tweets will still be confined to the 140-character, but there would be a “read more” type button that expands to more content.
Twitter has been springing a lot on us these days. Our RT feature turned to quoting, our favorites turned to likes (the transition from a star to a heart was a tough one), and then the moments tab. Now, this. As usual, Twitter offered what they could with the 140 characters still available.
@twitter wants to expand the character count, but I can’t save gifs or videos?!?!
— S ∆ N Q U i N • (@BornAroyale) January 5, 2016
Twitter doesn’t need to expand their character count to 10,000. I’m not reading no tweet that reaches that amount. I’ll just buy a book
— JOHN WICK (@DoubleD_LARSINY) January 5, 2016
twitter wants to increase character limits? that’s like kanye doing fashion instead of “mbdtf 2”.
— neil mccauley (@the_blueprint) January 5, 2016
When things are good but then Twitter threatens to change to a 10,000 character limit https://t.co/aIAaENbNrm
— Eric Fawcett (@Efawcett7) January 5, 2016
Seeing #yall argue with each other with 10k character tweets might be the thing that finally drives me off twitter. Im serious as hell too.
— Larry Beyince (@DragonflyJonez) January 5, 2016
Here’s to hoping that one day we’ll be able to edit these tweets.
Update: The co-founder of Twitter has spoken:
— Jack (@jack) January 5, 2016
