Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Submit Tweets As much as 4,000 Characters Lengthy

So, it is a factor…

Twitter has rolled out longer tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers within the US, with paying customers now in a position to put up tweets as much as 4,000 characters in size.

If anybody wanted or wished that.

Longer tweets will likely be displayed in the primary feed at customary size, with a ‘Present extra…’ indicator pointing customers to the rest of the content material.

Actually, it’s sadly ironic that not even Twitter may provide you with a very good use of the additional characters in its instance, however sure, Twitter Blue customers – all 300,000 of them – will now be capable to put up tremendous lengthy rants about no matter they select within the app.

As defined by Twitter:

“[Twitter Blue users] may also compose longer Tweets in a Quote Tweet or reply. Normal performance like posting media, creating polls, and utilizing hashtags nonetheless apply. Everybody will be capable to learn longer Tweets, however solely Blue subscribers can create them.”

I don’t know if anybody requested this, however Twitter 2.0 chief Elon Musk appears satisfied that by enabling customers to put up long-form content material, that may ultimately open up new avenues to monetization, and can see extra prime voices posting extra stuff to the app.

I imply, the latest Twitter Information are in all probability the very best instance – Elon’s hand-picked crew of journalists have been trawling by way of Twitter’s archives to uncover accusations of corruption and Authorities meddling, all ended up posting their findings in ridiculously lengthy tweet threads within the app.

It might make extra sense to put up them on a extra long-form centered format, however Musk clearly desires all the eye on Twitter – and in situations like this, perhaps having longer tweets could possibly be helpful.

However I don’t know.

It additionally appears short-sighted to solely present this performance to Twitter Blue customers. As famous, solely a small fraction of Twitter’s 250 milllion total user base is paying for a blue tick, and whereas Twitter is now expanding the offering into new markets, it’s exhausting to see it catching on in any possible way.

That implies that a whole lot of the preferred creators gained’t even be capable to use the choice, which appears counterintuitive. However then once more, Elon will in all probability look so as to add in a new monetization element, which you must pay as much as qualify for, which might be his broader view for limiting entry at this stage.

Who is aware of – perhaps it finally ends up being wonderful, and perhaps it makes it means simpler to put up what would have been multi-tweet threads in a extra partaking, attention-grabbing means within the app.

It’s totally different, for certain, very totally different from Twitter’s traditional providing.