A single post on X can now carry up to 20 photos and videos. Until this week the cap was four, a limit that had stood since the Twitter days. If your composer still stops at four attachments, the first thing to do is update the X app from the App Store or Google Play.
The new limit applies to photos and videos alike, so a post can mix stills and clips. For anyone covering a match, a trip, a product launch or an event, a whole set can now sit under one caption and one reply thread instead of being split across several posts, which is how many people worked around the old limit. Under the four-item cap, a set of 12 pictures needed three posts; it now fits in one, with room for eight more.
The change was announced on 12 November by Jonah Katz, who called it a big update and noted that the platform had supported only four photos and videos per post for ten years. His post carries a swipeable set of 11 pictures, to show what a longer carousel looks like.
Katz credited four colleagues for building the feature and followed up with links to the iPhone and Android app pages for users who do not see it yet. That suggests a staged rollout rather than a switch flipped for everyone at once, so it may take a short while to appear on your account. Video length, file size and upload quality were not part of the announcement.
