Twitter Testing Notes, a Long-Form Content Feature (searchengineland.com) 25
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Search Engine Land: Twitter is testing a new feature that would eliminate the constraints of its 280-character tweet limit and allow users to publish long-form tweets. Twitter confirmed the test via a tweet.
When this will become available to all Twitter users? It's unclear. Twitter noted: "We're excited for the moment when everyone can use Notes, but for now, our focus is on building it right. A large part of that is engaging with writers and building community." For now, Twitter plans to test it over the next two months with a small group of writers from Canada, Ghana, the UK and the U.S.
In Twitter Notes, it looks like you will be able to add:
- Formatting: Bold, italic and strikethrough text; insert ordered/unordered lists; add links.
- Media: You can add one GIF, one video, or up to four images.
- Tweets: You can either embed tweets by pasting URLs or from bookmarked tweets.
Notes also has a "Focus mode," that makes the article composer full-screen.
When this will become available to all Twitter users? It's unclear. Twitter noted: "We're excited for the moment when everyone can use Notes, but for now, our focus is on building it right. A large part of that is engaging with writers and building community." For now, Twitter plans to test it over the next two months with a small group of writers from Canada, Ghana, the UK and the U.S.
In Twitter Notes, it looks like you will be able to add:
- Formatting: Bold, italic and strikethrough text; insert ordered/unordered lists; add links.
- Media: You can add one GIF, one video, or up to four images.
- Tweets: You can either embed tweets by pasting URLs or from bookmarked tweets.
Notes also has a "Focus mode," that makes the article composer full-screen.
Shi**er (Score:2)
Ah (Score:3)
They're already available through this simple hack (Score:3)
1) Type a post in a notepad app up to 1,000 characters
2) Screencap the note & paste it into a tweet as an image
3) copy/paste the actual text as the ALT-text for the image
4) add up to 240 characters in tweet body
6) PROFIT!
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Or unroll it using threadreaderapp.com to automatically make it a blog.
People can unroll their own.but I never see it.
So they're adding blogging? (Score:1)
I thought statistically everyone had given up on that and was just tweeting now.
Close the circle, I guess.
Sooo... (Score:2)
SMS on the web, to longer SMS on the web, to blog. Thanks in no small part to Twitter, people these days have the attention span of a fruit fly with ADD, and they think adding a blog function is a good idea!?
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Depends on the language. In English and most other western languages, yes. In something like Japanese or Chinese 280 characters can express a much more complete thought.
Monetization (Score:2)
This is probably the follow-up to the concept of "super followers" and Twitter is looking to capitalize on giving bloggers and alternative posting option from SubStack and Medium since there are many, many people who will post a few tweets about something but really the meat of it is linked to one of those sites where they can charge a fee to read.
If Twitter can do that in it's own app there might be some appeal to it and some non-advertising revenue streams. I can see a lot of Medium bloggers also postin
I've been needing it for years... (Score:2)
...to put all of my pronouns within the character limit.
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...to put all of my pronouns within the character limit.
Trumpkin, alt-right, blueballs, incel, dickless, victim ....
Re: I've been needing it for years... (Score:1)
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Next blogs (Score:2)
Next up twitter is going to test long form blogs with comments. That way entire articles can be written and published and thus commented on thus removing actual news and replacing all news with tweets.
After all if you cant trust conservative big media not to lie to you who can you trust.
One GIF or up to four images, errr.... (Score:2)
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LOL! I thought exactly the same when I read that but then I figured they must mean an animation. Nowadays, people call an animated picture a GIF. I know it sounds kind of ignorant but what can you do?
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I know it sounds kind of ignorant but what can you do?
Pitchforks and torches?
Same if they don't pronounce "GIF" properly.
Hopefully a revival of long form writing (Score:2)
Please don't! (Score:3)
Create a new service called Ramble.
Birdsong here we come (Score:2)
What incredible innovation! (Score:1)
I believe there's a prior trademark on "Notes" (Score:1)