Elon Musk to introduce 4,000 character tweets next month

New feature is part of a ‘much larger’ overhaul of Twitter’s user interface over the coming months

Twitter boss Elon Musk said he would overhaul the platform after taking it over on 27 October, 2022 (Getty Images)

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the character limit for tweets will increase from 280 to 4,000 characters early next month.

The feature, which was first proposed in December, is one of a number of changes to the social media platform that the tech billionaire plans to roll out over the coming months after purchasing it for $44 billion last October.

The increase in character length will be only the second time in Twitter’s 17-year history that it has changed the limit, having previously boosted the original 140 limit to 280 in 2017.