Twitter Considers Higher Character Limit for Tweets
- Company experimenting with changes to help lure new users
- Long-time aficionados say long tweets would kill key feature
Can Longer Tweets Save Twitter?
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Twitter Inc. may be preparing to raise its character limit for tweets to the thousands from the current 140, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
The maximum number of characters in a post could be raised to as much as 10,000, said the person, who asked not be identified as the changes haven’t been decided. A tweet that long would be roughly equal to a 20-minute speech. The number could be half that, depending on how users respond to trials, the person said.