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# Twitter Considers Expanding Number of Characters in Tweets
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/twitter-considers-expanding-number-of-characters-in-a-tweet/
- Published: 2016-01-06T14:23:33.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-01T04:28:16.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Digital, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:47

**Twitter soon might let people post tweets** longer than 140 characters. Extra characters will likely be shoved into expandable cards, reports [AdAge](http://adage.com/article/digital/twitter-ceo-winks-change-140-character-limit/302009/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com), which added that “Re/code reported that Twitter is considering expanding the number of characters people can include in a tweet from 140 to potentially 10,000\. For an idea of how long a 10,000-character tweet would be, Quartz pulled an example from Homer’s “The Illiad.”

“If Twitter does away with the 140-character limit, that would be a big change and, per Re/code, one that could happen by the end of the first quarter of 2016 (also known as by the end of March).

“Hours later Twitter CEO J**ack Dorsey** indirectly addressed the report with a tweet that included zero characters and a picture that contained way more than 140 characters.”