Twitter Blue subscribers in the US can now post tweets up to 4,000 characters long. Previously members were limited to 280 words per tweet.<\/p>\n
“Blue” is Twitter’s premium subscription that allows paying customers to edit tweets within 30 minutes of posting them, upload longer and full HD videos, and use NFT avatars.<\/p>\n
The feature could be useful for Twitter users who would rather not write a multi-tweet thread.<\/p>\n
“Need more than 280 characters to express yourself? We know that lots of you do\u2026 and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once,” the company said in a post<\/a><\/strong> from its Twitter Blue profile.<\/p>\n “Starting today, if you’re subscribed to Twitter Blue in the US you can create longer Tweets.”<\/p>\n Twitter specified that most standard posting functions will still apply, including sharing pictures, using a hashtag, or creating polls.<\/p>\n “But now you can type all the way up to 4,000 characters. For now, longer Tweets on web can’t be saved as drafts or scheduled to send later,” Twitter said.<\/p>\n While only Twitter Blue subscribers can post lengthy Tweets, the company said all users could read, reply to, retweet, and quote them.<\/p>\n To keep scrolling on the platform to a minimum, Twitter will still limit lengthy tweets to a 280-character preview in feeds. A “Show more” link will be available to expand the post.<\/p>\n Twitter relaunched Blue<\/a><\/strong> in December 2022 after a weeks-long pause resulting from a wave of “protest impersonations”.<\/p>\n This was after Elon Musk announced<\/a><\/strong> that Twitter was changing how its Verified Account badges would work.<\/p>\n Where previously account verification was free and based on Twitter’s own internal measures of notability, Musk wanted users to pay for the controversial blue checkmark.<\/p>\n This led to\u00a0some users using the feature to impersonate well-known accounts.<\/p>\n The company said it would take “a number of other steps to detect and prevent impersonation” with the relaunched subscription, including a requirement that users have a valid phone number attached to their account.<\/p>\n The Twitter Blue subscription costs $7.99 (R142, excl. VAT) per month. It is not currently available in South Africa.<\/p>\n While only Twitter Blue subscribers can post lengthy Tweets, the company specified that all users could read, reply to, retweet, and quote them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":479599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11373,405,78182,82443],"class_list":["post-479595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-elon-musk","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-blue","tag-twitter-verification-badge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479601,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479595\/revisions\/479601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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