Today, Twitter announced in a tweet that paid Twitter Blue subscribers can write long tweets of up to 4,000 characters, instead of the traditional tweet of 280 characters.
Twitter said the feature is currently available to subscribers of the service in the United States, but it expects the feature to expand later to subscribers in the 15 countries where the service is currently available (Twitter Blue).
On the other hand, Twitter is currently talking about some of the limitations of the service, such as the inability to save long tweets written on the network as drafts and the inability to schedule posts. The company added that other Twitter features such as posting photos, adding hashtags, and creating polls will remain available as usual.
And Twitter pointed out that only the first 280 characters of long tweets are displayed, allowing users to click the "show more" button to read the entire tweet, so long tweets do not require users to cover the entire screen in this way. Lots of scrolling. She also said that while writing long tweets is limited to followers (Twitter Blue), all users can read and interact by replying or quoting and retweeting. However, followers can type up to 4,000 characters when quoting or retweeting.
It is worth noting that Twitter announced the launch of (Twitter Blue) last December with a subscription fee of $ 8 per month or $ 84 per year. The service offers subscribers a number of exclusive features, including the ability to edit tweets, bookmark folders, the ability to change the app's icon and design, a tab to display the most popular articles, a convenient reading mode, fewer ads, and a host of other features.
Twitter Blue is available in 15 countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Italy and India. The company promised to roll out the feature to more countries in the coming months.
It is worth noting that since he assumed the position of CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk has taken many steps to reduce costs and increase profits for the company, launching the service (Twitter Blue) and transforming the Twitter API service, to turn developers into employees. Services, is currently working to add electronic payment capability to Twitter and has laid off dozens of employees to reduce costs to the company.