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Twitter Enables 4,000-character Tweets; As Social Media Platforms Including Instagram, Suffer Temporary Outages The social media company announced Wednesday, that subscribers to its Twitter Blue plan, are now able to post a 4,000-character tweet. Users will see only the first 280 characters on the timeline, and can click on “Show more” link to read the rest of the tweet. Blue subscribers will also see ads reduced to half. CEO Elon Musk has said the company will soon introduce an ads-free tier. Twitter also announced new daily tweets limit of 2,400. The site's Help Page notes, “the daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals.” Retweets also count toward that limit. Other limits outlined in the Help Page site include a maximum of 500 direct messages per day and a follow limit of 400 accounts per day, though additional site rules around “aggressive following behavior” may impact that number for individuals. Twitter is also capping the total number an individual user can follow to 5,000, and attempts to follow more accounts will be “limited by account-specific ratios,” the site said. The limits are meant to “alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of Twitter and reduce downtime and error pages.” The social media company also announced it is shutting down free access to its Application Programming Interface(API) on Feb. 13; and will be charging $100 per month for the basic tier, to get developers access to a “low level of API usage.” "A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter," Twitter announced Wednesday. Premium API which was part of v1.1, will be deprecated on February 13. The company said developers can apply for enterprise access. Meanwhile for a couple of hours on Wednesday, Twitter and other social media platforms like Instagram, YouTube and Facebook, suffered temporary outages. Data from Downdetector showed that thousands of users globally reported issues with using the platforms. Some Twitter users were met with the prompt: "You are over the daily limit for sending tweets." "Multiple internal & external issues simultaneously today," Musk tweeted. "Should be fully back on track later tonight. " Twitter and the other social media platforms are now back up and running. https://www.keneci.com/hotfeed-read-more#h.6kd5n9d3cw10