Just what they need, longer rants.

I do not have a Twitter account, just an observer

as Louis de Montalte (Blaise Pascal) wrote in Letter XVI:
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

Well, if you PAY for the blue check you should get something in exchange!

I'm a twitter user, and, for those that don't know, Blue offers other 'extras', and this extended characters is not something you'll see in your stream without actively viewing.

i should think this is a step to help content creators monetize their content on twitter. subscribers would be more likely to pay for longer comments or rather short articles.

TEN THOUSAND characters? If a typed page is 250 words, and a “word” for typing-speed purposes is 5 characters, I make that eight pages. That's not a tweet, it's a screed.

In other news, Twitter's efforts to eliminate bots are moving apace; over the weekend it was reported that they have successfully blocked automated NWS alerts.

10,000 characters might push the attention span of the sound byte generation(s).