{"id":607532,"date":"2023-02-13T07:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/twitter-expands-character-limit-from-280-to-4000-and-promptly-breaks\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T07:49:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T13:49:26","slug":"twitter-expands-character-limit-from-280-to-4000-and-promptly-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/twitter-expands-character-limit-from-280-to-4000-and-promptly-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter expands character limit from 280 to 4,000 (and promptly breaks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1508421\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/twitter-g030ed967a_1920.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Twitter login screen on a tablet\" data-hero  ><\/p>\n<p><span>Image: Photo Mix \/ Pixabay<\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"link_wrapped_content\">\n<body><\/p>\n<p>Loquacious people, rejoice! Twitter just expanded its brief 280 character limit to an oversized 4,000\u2026 but there\u2019s a catch. <\/p>\n<p>In order to use wall-o-text-length tweets, you have to be a member of  monthly subscription service, which costs real money dollars. Talk about a buzzkill, yeah? You also have to be located in the United States, as other countries don\u2019t have access to this feature yet. You can peruse the details in the tweet below.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>need more than 280 characters to express yourself?<\/p>\n<p>we know that lots of you do\u2026 and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get that. <\/p>\n<p>so we&#8217;re introducing longer Tweets! you&#8217;re gonna want to check this out. tap this ????\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The idea is to eliminate Twitter threads, which are longer ponderings that get broken up into shorter tweets. Personally, I prefer shorter tweets because that\u2019s what drew me to this social media platform in the first place. I didn\u2019t have to sift through paragraphs upon paragraphs to get the information I wanted. Simple and to the point. That\u2019s what Twitter used to be. Nowadays, like most folks, I\u2019ve no idea what the hell is going on with it.  <\/p>\n<p>Twitter has been a major trash fire for quite some time now. Whether they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1448100\/twitter-leaked-data-on-over-200-million-users-heres-how-to-check-if-youre-affected.html\">leaking data from 200 million users<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1479844\/twitter-officially-bans-third-party-apps.html\">slamming third-party clients with the ban hammer<\/a>, the social media platform is the virtual wild, wild west. Last night, shortly after rolling out the new character count and controversial API changes, Twitter suffered from widespread technical issues that  or following new people for several hours. <\/p>\n<p>Although the issue has since been resolved, Twitter appears to get more and more unstable by the moment. Will it eventually implode? Who knows. Either way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1381758\/dont-get-scammed-why-you-cant-trust-elon-musks-twitter-right-now.html\">Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter is awfully hard to trust<\/a> right now though.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/div>\n<div data-ga=\"article-footer-author\">\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/author\/abiancuzzo\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\tAuthor: Ashley Biancuzzo<\/a>, Associate Editor\t\t<\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/author_photo_Ashley-Biancuzzo_1646959496-32.jpg?quality=50&#038;strip=all&#038;w=150&#038;h=150&#038;crop=1\" height=\"125\" width=\"125\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ashley is a professional writer and editor with a strong background in tech and pop culture. She has written for high traffic websites such as Polygon, Kotaku, StarWars.com, and Nerdist. In her off time, she enjoys playing video games, reading science fiction novels, and hanging out with her rescue greyhound.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awitchdidit\" title=\"Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\"><path d=\"M459.37 151.716c.325 4.548.325 9.097.325 13.645 0 138.72-105.583 298.558-298.558 298.558-59.452 0-114.68-17.219-161.137-47.106 8.447.974 16.568 1.299 25.34 1.299 49.055 0 94.213-16.568 130.274-44.832-46.132-.975-84.792-31.188-98.112-72.772 6.498.974 12.995 1.624 19.818 1.624 9.421 0 18.843-1.3 27.614-3.573-48.081-9.747-84.143-51.98-84.143-102.985v-1.299c13.969 7.797 30.214 12.67 47.431 13.319-28.264-18.843-46.781-51.005-46.781-87.391 0-19.492 5.197-37.36 14.294-52.954 51.655 63.675 129.3 105.258 216.365 109.807-1.624-7.797-2.599-15.918-2.599-24.04 0-57.828 46.782-104.934 104.934-104.934 30.213 0 57.502 12.67 76.67 33.137 23.715-4.548 46.456-13.32 66.599-25.34-7.798 24.366-24.366 44.833-46.132 57.827 21.117-2.273 41.584-8.122 60.426-16.243-14.292 20.791-32.161 39.308-52.628 54.253z\" \/><\/svg><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ashley-biancuzzo-28146322\/\" title=\"LinkedIn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\"><path d=\"M416 32H31.9C14.3 32 0 46.5 0 64.3v383.4C0 465.5 14.3 480 31.9 480H416c17.6 0 32-14.5 32-32.3V64.3c0-17.8-14.4-32.3-32-32.3zM135.4 416H69V202.2h66.5V416zm-33.2-243c-21.3 0-38.5-17.3-38.5-38.5S80.9 96 102.2 96c21.2 0 38.5 17.3 38.5 38.5 0 21.3-17.2 38.5-38.5 38.5zm282.1 243h-66.4V312c0-24.8-.5-56.7-34.5-56.7-34.6 0-39.9 27-39.9 54.9V416h-66.4V202.2h63.7v29.2h.9c8.9-16.8 30.6-34.5 62.9-34.5 67.2 0 79.7 44.3 79.7 101.9V416z\" \/><\/svg><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1508421\/twitter-expands-character-count-to-4000-and-crashes-in-the-process.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tama Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Photo Mix \/ Pixabay Loquacious people, rejoice! Twitter just expanded its brief 280 character limit to an oversized 4,000\u2026 but there\u2019s a catch. In order to use wall-o-text-length tweets, you have to be a member of Twitter Blue\u2019s monthly subscription service, which costs real money dollars. Talk about a buzzkill, yeah? You also have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352,46,687],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-607532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-expands","8":"category-technology","9":"category-twitter"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}