Twitter’s New Word Count.

By Gene W. Edwards.

Posted 5/22/2023.

Old Twitter: 140 “characters” word limit per tweet.

By the time I joined, lately: 280 characters. A character is one space, let’s say the letter “a” or a period, a space, or whatever.

Then I joined Twitter Blue for $84 a year (equivalent to $7 a month) and I started making long and longer posts, longer than three or four full lines of elite type on an 8.5” X 11” sheet, and the whole thing was going in . . . each time. How? Why?

In February, Twitter decided Twitter Blue subscribers’ posts could be 4,000 characters long!

Then in April of 2023, Twitter bumped up the number of spaces to 10,000, “a whole essay long,” someone pointed out. Ten thousand characters is nearly two typing-paper single-spaced sheets filled with words and spaces and punctuation from top to bottom (let’s say 100 lines in all). That’s about 70 times 140 characters, or 35 times 280 ones.

Tweets, now, are more like endless-stream chirps, not itty-bitty tweets, if you’re a Twitter Blue bird, which I am.

It’s a whole other job to be noticed on Twitter. A Boost of one posting costs $70 (equivalent to 10 months of membership). How about that, moneybags?

Is Twitter worth it? Well, they never censor me. The nice thing about fake news is that it doesn’t last; it is called out not by censorship but by other users, other news outlets, etc. It just disappears like a fog under sunlight. Musk does not believe in censorship. Neither do I. Of course there is a line one shouldn’t cross — and everyone with a soul understands that but a few psychopathic nitwits.

Just letting you know. It’s spring. Lots of twittering going on.

Love,

Gene.

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