With the launch of the Blue paid service, subscribers can now post tweets of up to 4,000 characters, compared to a limit of 280 for all other users.
At the moment this novelty is only accessible in the United States, but it will arrive in other countries where the paid version of the social network is available, including Italy.
Tweets, born to be 140-character messages in the wake of text messages, were doubled in 2017 and brought to 280 characters.
The paid mode aims to raise cash for the company, but at the moment it doesn't take off.
According to the site The Information, Twitter Blue subscribers are around 290,000 worldwide, a rather low number.
The subscription gives you the possibility to get the blue profile verification check, to see fewer advertisements, to edit or delete a tweet, to upload longer videos.
A few days ago, when the possibility for paying users to post 4,000-character tweets became available, the platform had computer problems that lasted about two hours.
Users have complained about being unable to post messages, being told they've exceeded a daily limit of tweets, and being unable to send direct messages.
According to some US media outlets, a daily tweet limit has been set on Twitter to reduce the pressure on its operations.
Elon Musk drastically reduced his workforce after taking ownership of the company at the end of the year, raising concerns that he had enough engineering talent on hand to keep the platform stable.
