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Forget About Short Tweets — Twitter Launched Long-Form Tweets
Supersized! 4,000 characters is a big change and the next step toward paying writers for their Tweets.
When Ev Williams co-founded Twitter it was all about short-form content.
One of the reasons he founded Medium was that he wanted to give creators the opportunity to create medium-sized stories.
Medium = medium-sized stories of 3 to 7 minutes
Now Elon Musk redefined one of Twitter’s core features: its tweets.
For Twitter Blue users the 280-character limit doesn’t exist anymore.
Subscribers in the United States are now able to write tweets of up to 4,000 characters.
Twitter will continue to only show 280 characters on your timeline.
Users will have to tap a “Show more” prompt to click and read the supersized tweets.
It looks like this:
Twitter launched its news feature by asking its users: