Elon Musk’s changes on Twitter do not stop. Twitter, which has gone through a turbulent process, is on the agenda to change the character limit this time. On the other hand, Musk’s war with advertisers, Apple and bots on the platform continues. Musk announced a while ago that Apple threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store. He also drew attention to the 30 percent cut Apple takes from in-app purchases in the App Store.

Twitter can be 1000 characters

During a Twitter thread last November 28, Elon Musk responded to a tweet asking for the character limit to be increased to 1,000 characters. Musk replied, “On his to-do list.” As you know, the character limit for tweets as of now is 280.

John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos), who made the proposal, has also detailed his request. Kraus’ original request is that the character limit is 1000, but only the first 280 characters of the relevant tweet appear in the stream. The corresponding long character tweet will also have a “show more” option and tapping will expand the entire tweet.

The idea behind introducing more characters per tweet is to reduce the number of long threads that require scrolling through multiple tweets to read the whole thought. It looks like Musk will also prefer longer tweets over so-called “megathreads”.

What we don’t know right now is how long Musk’s to-do list is and what rank Twitter’s new character count is on that list. On the other hand, of course, there is no guarantee that the number of characters will be 1000, but long tweets are also mentioned in the slides that Musk has already published. So tweets with longer characters are a topic that’s already being worked on.