Threads Launches 10k Character Text Expansion for Posts
Threads allows free 10,000-character text attachments with prominent external links to help creators share and promote their work, unlike X's paid longer text feature, Meta confirmed.
- On September 4, 2025, Meta's Threads rolled out a text-attachment feature allowing users to add up to 10,000 characters at no cost, with no immediate monetization plans.
- Seeing people post screenshots of long text, Meta designed text attachments as an alternative to Threads' prior 500-character limit, while X restricted longer posts to paid tiers.
- Clicking the 'text' icon lets Threads users draft or paste formatted blocks up to 10,000 characters, which expand inline with rich text and show prominent links if included in the main post.
- Aimed at creators, the update lets authors and journalists attach longer previews to promote their work, positioning Threads as an open alternative to X despite sending little traffic to external sites in recent months.
- While live, the attachments aren't yet searchable or federated; Meta says it is exploring federation and searchability for future updates, and attachments currently support text only, with multimedia possibly added later.
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Threads now lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text
Threads, Instagram's Twitter dupe, is rolling out the ability to attach text to a post, allowing up to 10,000 additional characters. Talk about TL;DR. In all seriousness, it could prove a useful tool. It's a way to share longer blocks of writing without posting a massive wall of text, since it takes the form of an attachment. Importantly, you'll still be able to link to the origin, too. So, if you're, say, a writer, then you can share a portion …
Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links
Meta says says that the 10,000 characters give people more room to express themselves, but also allows them to promote their work and drive others to "wherever it lives," even if not on Threads itself.
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