There is still news that can be said about Twitter, positively or at least positively, and it is that, although it is not clear whether it touches in such a conspicuous way a characteristic element of the platform, such as the character limit, the proposal is on the table, as confirmed Elon Mousk, the undisputed engine of change on the social network since its purchase.

If we were to repeat a few weeks ago the two innovations that were already being worked on, such as end-to-end encryption in direct messages and “facilitate long messages“Today, shots are going for the latter, but in an unforeseen way. Because what makes long messages easier? It’s not that easy.

As everyone knows, Twitter has come to love, among other monikers, the 140-character social network, the hallmark of short, almost telegraphic messages that have doubled in size over time. 280 current characters. However, this limit is still insufficient for the transmission of certain types of messages. The question is how much more can be expanded without the platform losing its essence.

With that last point in mind, simplifying long messages as proposed makes sense, since the idea revolves around “having the Twitter composer automatically expand to a thread when the character count approaches the 280 character limit.” In other words, the limit – and therefore the essence – is preserved, but the operation is simplified for those who want to transmit longer messages.

It’s on the to-do list

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022

However, there could be a change on the table that is much bolder than expected, and therefore more subtle for what it entails in substance and form: increase up to a thousand characters per messageas confirmed by Elon Musk at the suggestion of a user on Twitter.

The proposal, yes, is a little more complicated than simply letting people write up to a new limit and Twitter becomes a ticket network… but only a little more: it would consist of allow 1000 characters but show only 280 by default and add a button to expand the rest of the text. But we say he could and would, all conditional, because even though Elon Musk is not only saying that they are thinking about it, but that the change is already on his to-do list for Twitter, it would be the most profound of all, the address was printed.v the short time they were at the helm of the company. A change so profound that it would go against Twitter’s idiosyncrasies, despite being a historical request from many users. Therefore, it pays to take it with tweezers, because it does not seem as easy as they say. But that remains to be seen, the social network is not experiencing the best moments and something like this could be a shock in the future.

Now I ask you, what do you think? I mean the previous paragraph. Can you see it for too long? It has 999 characters. The previous one, 281.