Afrigather Microblogging Platform, Twitter has launched a brand new characteristic that can entice extra Blue subscribers. The characteristic permits blue subscribers to tweet in an extended type of as much as 4,000 characters, as in opposition to the traditional 280 characters restrict.
In a tweet, Twitter introduced that long-form tweets can be out there for all customers to learn and retweet. It stated, “whereas solely Blue subscribers can put up longer Tweets, anybody and everybody can learn them. you possibly can reply to, retweet, and quote Tweet an extended Tweet, irrespective of when you’re a Twitter Blue subscriber or not.”
The microblogging website additionally defined that lengthy tweets can be capped at 280 characters on the timeline, with a “present extra” immediate. Customers can clear the immediate to learn the entire tweet.
What’s Twitter Blue?
Twitter Blue refers to one in all Elon Musk’s methods to monetize the social media firm. To shake up the platform dynamics after his April 2022 acquisition, Musk launched a paid subscription to Twitter Blue. The paid subscription provides a blue checkmark to your account and grants you entry to options like Edit Tweet, and add video recordsdata at 1080p high quality, amongst different perks.
Android customers are required to pay $8 month-to-month for Twitter Blue, whereas iPhone customers will want $11 to get enlisted for Twitter Blue.
Why was the long-tweet characteristic launched?
Asides from the apparent cause, which is to draw extra subscribers to Twitter Blue, Twitter launched this characteristic to satisfy the necessity of those that require greater than 280 characters to specific themselves. It stated:
“want greater than 280 characters to specific your self? We all know that a lot of you do… and whereas we love a superb thread, generally you simply wish to Tweet every little thing suddenly. we get that. so we’re introducing longer Tweets! you’re gonna wish to test this out. faucet this 👉.”
Blue Subscribers within the US are the primary set of tweeps to get pleasure from the brand new characteristic. Whereas a few of them welcomed the Twitter character Improve, others kicked in opposition to it. They maintained that they most well-liked the 280-character restrict.
