Twitter increases character limit to 10,000 for Blue users, Elon Musk confirms

Ending months of speculation, Elon Musk-led Twitter has finally anunced a higher character limit for tweets and it is 10,000 characters! What's catch? feature is only available to users who have signed up for Twitter's flagship programme - 'Twitter Blue'.

Twitter's affiliate account 'Twitter Write' tweeted in early hours of morning (local time), that is Twitter would t support tweets up to 10,000 characters in length. Additionally, re will also be option of formatting your text in bold and italics. 

"We’re making improvements to writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter w supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access se new features, and apply to enable Subscriptions on your account to earn income directly on Twitter. Tap on “Monetization” in settings to apply today," tweet said.

Ar feature to entice users to sign up for Twitter Blue

move comes after tech billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, last month had answered a query on social media platform that he was working on "extending long-form tweets to 10k soon". A Twitter user posted a query saying, " dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?", to which Musk replied that company will soon extend long-form tweets' character limit.

Musk did t provide clarification at that time on wher new feature would be restricted to Twitter Blue subscribers or if it would also be available to n-paying users.

confirmation comes a month after Twitter's anuncement of increasing tweet character limit to 4,000 characters for Blue subscribers in US. This marked second instance in company's 16-year history that it has modified its character count. first time was in 2017 when Twitter doubled its 140-character limit to 280.

Despite Musk's repeated suggestions that subscription revenue is only way for Twitter to maintain financial stability in long run, Twitter Blue had only amassed around 180,000 subscribers as of mid-January, which equated to less than 0.2% of its monthly active users, according to a Forbes report.

Since assuming control of microblogging site, X CEO has implemented various changes, such as introducing an $8 paid subscription for Twitter Blue, which offers badges of gold and silver ticks, and reinstating banned or controversial accounts. He expressed confidence in Twitter's potential to attract over one billion monthly users within next 12 to 18 months.