Why can we only tag 10 friends in a status?

The original mentions team (Eugene Letuchy, Tom Occhino, Marcel Laverdet, et al) chose an initial limit of 5 for the reasons Charlie Cheever mentioned, which was recently upped to 10. read more

Photo tagging has almost always worked in this way, while note tagging developed a strong social norm of tagging being used for distribution (especially after the 25 Things About Me meme). This meant we had to make certain behaviors different for note tags versus photo tags and we didn't want to have to do the same for status tags. read more

You can status tag up 10 users. You can location tag up to 20 users. You can photo tag up to 50 users. You are talking about different things. I assume you are talking about the location tag. As always with actions that only one user is able to accomplish but the masses cannot; it's best not to try to attempt it. The correct answer is: it is not possible to tag pass the limit. read more