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| Twitter automatically splits long texts into threads |
Twitter is working on a new feature in Tweet Composer that will automatically split long text into a thread instead of manually dividing it into chunks of 280 characters per tweet.
Today, Jane Manchun Wong, a tech blogger, tweeted that "Twitter is enabling (Tweet Compose) to automatically split long text into tweet threads when it reaches a maximum of 280 characters."
As I explained in a response to a user, "I think the goal is to reduce friction in creating threads so that the user doesn't have to hit the (+) key every 280 characters."
So far; When posting a long text, users have to click the (+) button to add a tweet to the thread, which makes the cross-platform posting experience quite troublesome.
In the past few hours, several people have complained to Musk about too many tweets and difficulty reading them in their feed. One of them posted an 82-tweet message about the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and they found the experience boring to read.
Elon Musk responded tersely: "The ability to send long tweets soon."
FT Product Manager Matt Taylor noted in another tweet that it would be nice to have tabs in tweet threads that show the start and end of a tweet so users can edit the text more easily.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that Musk has touched on the issue of long tweets, as he tweeted earlier this month that Twitter was working on appending long text to tweets.
It's unclear if long tweets will become a separate feature of the new threads section, the roll-out date for these features is unknown and not expected anytime soon, after which Musk took over the company, nearly half of the staff was laid off and several executives quit. With the masks worn by the rest of the company's employees, who yesterday chose long hours of high-intensity work or quit, there are no guarantees that new products in this working environment will be brought to market in time.
Currently, some users rely on third-party threads to post long text, for example examples include Typeful, ThreadStart, and Chirr, which provide tools for automatically splicing long text into threads and scheduling capabilities.
The platform currently provides subscribers (Twitter Blue) with an easy way to read long threads in tweet threads, as it is supported by the app (Threader) which provides tweet threads in a distraction-free format. last year — but Musk didn't mention anything about changing the reading experience for the average user.
Twitter offers a tool called (Notes) that allows story creation and long-form content, but it is only available to a certain group of writers and there are no clear plans for the future of the tool, Musk.
Remarkably, a blogger (Jin Manchun Wong) discovered in code for the Android Twitter app yesterday that the platform is working on adding end-to-end encryption for private messages sent through it.