Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Post Tweets Up to 4,000 Characters Long

So, it is a factor…

Twitter has rolled out longer tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers within the US, with paying customers now ready to submit tweets up to 4,000 characters in size.

If anybody wanted or needed that.

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

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

As defined by Twitter:

“[Twitter Blue users] also can compose longer Tweets in a Quote Tweet or reply. Customary performance like posting media, creating polls, and utilizing hashtags nonetheless apply. Everybody might be ready 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 submit 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 current Twitter Information are most likely the very best instance – Elon’s hand-picked staff 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 will make extra sense to submit them on a extra long-form targeted format, however Musk clearly needs all the eye on Twitter – and in cases like this, perhaps having longer tweets could possibly be beneficial.

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 signifies that a whole lot of the preferred creators gained’t even give you the chance to use the choice, which appears counterintuitive. However then once more, Elon will most likely look to add in a new monetization element, which you have got to pay up to 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 approach simpler to submit what would have been multi-tweet threads in a extra partaking, fascinating approach within the app.

It’s totally different, for positive, very totally different from Twitter’s standard providing.