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Twitter to allow tweets with 10,000 character limit

Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, announced on Monday (March 6) that the microblogging platform would soon expand "long-form tweets" to 10,000 characters. ThePrimeagen, a YouTuber known for his videos related to coding, asked Musk: "the dev community and I were wondering if you could add code blocks to tweets?" "As an attachment? How many chars? We are extending long-form tweets to 10k soon," Musk replied. Many users expressed their thoughts on the announcement. Some were surprised and could not believe what Musk replied. The company said in February that US Blue members could use the platform to send lengthy tweets up to 4,000 characters. Non-subscribers can read, comment, retweet, and quote tweets, but only Blue subscribers can send longer tweets. Only 280 characters are allowed in a tweet, and this restriction still stands for non-subscribers. According to Musk, the microblogging platform is "spinning up subscriptions," so users can "charge" their followers for content. KD/Expat Media
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