Same story, more characters. Much more in fact, and that’s if the once famous 140 character, now 280 character social network planned a big leap in this restriction feature, which today borders on insanity… Or maybe not, but considering Considering how the new boss is spending it, one wonders how much of this is reality.

As we gathered in the news linked above, Elon Musk confirmed the change in tweet restrictions: from 280 to 1,000 charactersthe leap we pointed out in this report was really remarkable for how it could change the eccentricity of Twitter, known for its “telegram” approach, in relation to the old telegrams and the importance of condensing the message. possible.

But the fact is that everything has its limits, and those related to the transmission of certain messages on the platform of the little bird are not negligible, to the point that they have popularized the creation of threads – sequences of messages from the same author – to tell any story. that goes beyond a bit of a long sentence. What’s more, it was the first aspect they said they were working on on Twitter.

However, making threads easier doesn’t seem to be the ideal solution, or for all cases, and increasing the character limit is still on the table, but quadruple the bet. In other words, we are no longer talking about going from 280 to 1000 characters, but from 280 to 4,000 characters nothing less.

And it is

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022

This was confirmed by Elon Musk in response to a user’s question, as he has done many times before. But since these changes are taking so long to implement, a question arises. It wouldn’t be the first time the richest man in the world has said things that aren’t true either. On this occasion, however, many Twitter experts consider it likely.

There are a lot of suggestions, yes, but this 4,000 character thing is bordering on the insanity… considering the history and forms of Twitter, of course. It will need to be seen as it is applied if it is to be applied. It has already been explained that the billet will not be seen as it is, but the 280 character view would be respected and a button would be added to expand the rest news.

How long does 4000 characters take, you ask? Go all the way to the top, to the first sentence, and click on this link. There you’ll see an example of what the first draft was, the one with a thousand characters… and multiply that by four. I can tell you in advance that he will make you write a note as long as this and much longer than this, depending on the words you choose.

Now all that is missing is to materialize something of what Musk said, and at the moment only the blue Twitter seems to be a priority, as is evident both because of the red numbers of the social network and because of the interest of its new owner in Turn the situation around. Will he make it without any further problems? The trend warns against the opposite.