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Lance Ulanoff

Twitter's new 10,000-character tweet ceiling could ruin the platform

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10,000 characters are, by some estimates, between 1,400 and 2,500 words. That's an essay or feature-length article. It's most certainly not a Tweet and is absolutely not something I want to post or read on Twitter. Sorry, Elon Musk.

On Thursday, the company announced that its long-promised 10,000-character tweets, along with a new option to include italic and bold text, were live for Twitter Blue members. 

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