Since Elon Musk announced days ago that tweets will go from having 280 characters to having 4,000, the network has been in an uproar. The network has a tendency to riot, because many of those who use it live perpetually exalted, and convinced that their opinion, condensed in the space that Twitter allows them, will be their Great Contribution to the History of Humanity. That they now reproach Musk for wanting to increase the number of characters is not new. They also raised a cry in the sky when, in the pre-Musk era, in 2017 those who were in charge then decided that of the 140 maximum characters allowed then we would go to 280. It seemed like the end of the world. The essences of microblogging were lost! What a bunch of bullshit we hear. But a few days later no one remembered the previous limit and whoever wanted to could continue writing a simple short sentence, without the police knocking on their door at dawn to stop them.
With the characters that Musk has announced, I could fit two columns like this in a tweet. Each column has about 1,900 characters. It is narrower than the others in the newspaper, because it is located to the right of the cartoons that Kap draws one day and JL Martín another. They eat a piece of you because for decades it has been the layout that rules. Of all this, those who read online do not find out, nor are they interested in finding out.
Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter and does whatever he wants. It is evident that he has a pipe. He spends a lot of time writing messages and playing with the illusion of a child. Well done. That’s why he bought it. Whoever does not want to write tweets of 4,000 characters can continue writing them of 280, or 50 or simply three, or one. No one forces you to write long. It happens like when the law on the interruption of pregnancy was debated, which some thought that, if it were approved, they would force everyone to have an abortion, yes or yes.
