Social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), is giving users more room to share photos and videos, increasing the number of media items allowed in a single post from four to 20.
For more than 10 years, Twitter that later became X has a limit of just four photos or videos per post.
Jonah Katz, X’s mobile engineering lead, announced the change on Thursday, November 12, calling it a “big update” to the platform.
The new cap is five times the previous limit, making it easier to keep a larger collection together instead of splitting it across multiple posts.
His announcement included a swipeable collection of images, showing how a post can extend beyond the familiar four-image layout.
For people sharing a trip, an event or a closer look at a new product, the practical benefit is straightforward: more of the story can sit under one caption, with one set of replies.
Katz’s wording covers both photos and videos, rather than describing this as a photo-only upgrade.
The announcement concerns the number of attachments in a post; it does not announce longer individual videos, higher upload resolutions or changes to file-size limits.
In a follow-up post, Katz told users who cannot see the feature to make sure their app is up to date, linking to the iPhone and Android versions of X.
Updating the app is therefore the first step if the composer still stops at four attachments.
The announcement however does not specify a Premium subscription requirement, a country-by-country rollout schedule or a separate launch date for the web composer.
Those details remain unconfirmed, so users should check what is available in their updated app rather than assume every account and device has changed at once.
