With Elon Musk formally taking cost of Twitter, anticipate a sequence of modifications coming to the microblogging platform. The Tesla CEO has already sacked prime Twitter executives together with CEO Parag Agrawal, authorized coverage chief Vijaya Gadde and CFO Nel Segal on his first day. Now, he’s seeking to tweak character depend on Twitter.
When requested about increasing the character restrict for tweets by a Twitter person, Musk stated that the platform is ‘approach overdue for lengthy type tweets’.
“Can we do away with character limits, or a minimum of enormously broaden it? One of many precise higher issues about wechat than Twitter. Can be higher for public discourse than quick fuses, no?” a person requested Elon Musk in one among tweets. To the query, Musk replied ‘Completely’. “My most speedy takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is approach overdue for lengthy type tweets!” he additional added.
Clearly, Musk’s reply hints that the character restrict of tweets is the subsequent huge change that we should always anticipate coming our approach. And probably, the present 280 character restrict can be executed away with. What’s unclear is he’ll introduce an elevated restrict for Twitter posts or fully cast off the restrict.
At current, Twitter permits customers to submit tweets in 280 characters. The unique restrict was 140, which was ultimately elevated to 280 in November 2017. Though demand for rising the character depend has come from a number of customers again and again, Twitter most popular calling itself a spot for briefer ideas. Whether or not this definition could change with Elon Musk taking cost is to be seen within the coming days.
In the meantime, as per a New York Occasions report, Musk has requested managers to ‘draw up lists of staff to chop’. “Musk, who accomplished a USD 44-billion deal to purchase Twitter on Thursday, has ordered the cuts throughout the corporate, with some groups to be trimmed greater than others,” the NYT report stated, including that the “scale of the layoffs couldn’t be decided” on the firm, which has round 7,500 staff. The NYT report additional acknowledged that the layoffs at Twitter “would happen earlier than” the November 1 date when “staff have been scheduled to obtain inventory grants as a part of their compensation.
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