Elon Musk Wants To Present 4,000 Tweet Characters, What's The PROBLEM?

Elon Musk will extend the tweet to 4,000 characters (photo: Twitter)

JAKARTA - Recently, Twitter CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that he will begin extending the tweet limit to 4,000 characters in February.

As one of the micro blogging platforms, many people have taken to Twitter to get quick, not convoluted and easily accessible information. It seems that short captions have contributed to Twitter's success so far.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022

Elon Musk's decision then reaped the pros and cons again, because many users were worried that their timeline would become more congested and uncomfortable to see as usual.

"Twitter will change the character limit for tweets from 280 characters to 4000(!) characters. I'm afraid this will make the timeline look very bad," wrote the user of the @RealShiina account.

Previously, the number of characters in the tweet was originally designed to match the official limit for SMS text messages on mobile phones, namely 140 characters. Then expanded to 280 characters in 2017.

The increase in the number of characters in tweets will of course reap a lot of criticism. But on the other hand, there are also those who argue that the performance for 4,000 characters will not fulfill the timeline and make it 'bad'.

"People think this will be shown on the timeline and I'm not sure why. I think it will be a twitter style or a further "read" style, not just a 4.000-word long tweet between normal tweets. They will be their own. At least that's my assumption," tweeted the user of the @neontaster account.

Yes, these will get the same Timeline screen space as other tweets, but you will be able to click for more

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2023

Musk later confirmed the assumption in his reply. Musk said that a long tweet would later get the same space as tweets in general.

"Yes, this will get the same Timeline screen space as any other tweet, but you can click even more," Musk replied to @neontaster.

Furthermore, Musk also said that Twitter would add simple formatt features such as thick, lowerline & font size this quarter.

"The goal is to allow people to original long forms on Twitter instead of forcing them to use other websites."