Elon Musk has returned to the fray with another incendiary message on his Twitter account. This time it was not to announce mass layoffs or to justify his actions, but to put an end to the most distinctive feature of the social network: short texts.
If in the year 2022 the message that was published in a tweet could not exceed 280 characters, in the next year it seems that this could change. “Twitter will soon offer the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending the absurdity of notepad screenshots,” Musk said in a tweet posted Sunday.
For years, the Twitter community has asked the social network to have more space to write messages. The billionaire refers to this when he calls it “absurd” that users have to resort to screenshots of their notebooks to be able to explain themselves well through the social network.
At first the limitations were greater because of those 140 characters, which would later end up being extended to the 280 currently in force. From Twitter they also launched the option of threads, an ordered succession of messages together that form a joint text.
The end of the 280 characters?
This does not seem to have satisfied the community, nor the new owner of the company. That is why among the new Musk updates is to change this option, although for the moment it has not been concise in clarifying whether in these future changes, Twitter would increase the number of characters or add an option to be able to include these long texts.
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