Twitter tests notes feature with 2500 word limit
Twitter is trialling a new feature allowing users to share "notes" as long as 2,500 words.
The social media platform normally limits posts to 280 characters.
Twitter said the move was a reaction to seeing individuals utilize the stage to post pictures of longer declarations and steer devotees to outside bulletins.
The test will run for a very long time and include a little gathering of scholars in Canada, Ghana, the UK and US.
The new element means to keep crowds in the Twitter eco-framework, with perusers ready to see a title and access the more drawn out note by tapping on a connection.
Authors will actually want to install gifs, photographs and different elements into long-structure papers that can be perused here and there Twitter. Notes can likewise be altered after they have been distributed.
Online entertainment master Dr Laura Toogood said the preliminary was a critical stage for Twitter. She said the element would urge individuals to remain inside the actual stage, as opposed to connecting out to different sites that can have long-structure content.
"Adding this additional capacity implies that Twitter is currently in a situation to rival a portion of the well known contributing to a blog stages and possibly draw in another crowd and an alternate kind of client," she told the BBC.
"It will likewise urge existing clients to blog inside Twitter, instead of move to different sites for this reason, which will assist with holding their crowd."
In 2017 Twitter expanded the most extreme number of characters for tweets from 140 to 280, following a preliminary among a little gathering of clients.
The most recent move comes in the midst of examination of the Twitter's business possibilities, as Elon Musk's arranged takeover of the organization brings up issues about its bearing.
The firm declared in April it was dealing with an alter button, soon after Mr Musk - who had called for such an element - uncovered he had purchased an enormous stake in the organization. Twitter said the occasions were irrelevant.
Mr Musk has likewise said he sees potential in a membership model in which individuals would pay to utilize the stage.
Dr Nikki Usher, a reporting teacher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said it was difficult to tell whether Twitter was evaluating new configurations out of benefit or a certified craving to attempt to work on the stage.
"For this situation, something we truly do know is that individuals could do without to peruse long texts on the web," they told the BBC.
"So whether giving individuals 2,500 characters to work with will at last have an effect in the nature of the computerized open arena - all things considered, I believe it's far-fetched. Is it an opportunity to snatch titles ahead of a few significant changes at the organization? Totally."
Twitter said the move was a reaction to seeing individuals utilize the stage to post pictures of longer declarations and steer devotees to outside bulletins.
The test will run for a very long time and include a little gathering of scholars in Canada, Ghana, the UK and US.
The new element means to keep crowds in the Twitter eco-framework, with perusers ready to see a title and access the more drawn out note by tapping on a connection.
Authors will actually want to install gifs, photographs and different elements into long-structure papers that can be perused here and there Twitter. Notes can likewise be altered after they have been distributed.
Online entertainment master Dr Laura Toogood said the preliminary was a critical stage for Twitter. She said the element would urge individuals to remain inside the actual stage, as opposed to connecting out to different sites that can have long-structure content.
"Adding this additional capacity implies that Twitter is currently in a situation to rival a portion of the well known contributing to a blog stages and possibly draw in another crowd and an alternate kind of client," she told the BBC.
"It will likewise urge existing clients to blog inside Twitter, instead of move to different sites for this reason, which will assist with holding their crowd."
In 2017 Twitter expanded the most extreme number of characters for tweets from 140 to 280, following a preliminary among a little gathering of clients.
The most recent move comes in the midst of examination of the Twitter's business possibilities, as Elon Musk's arranged takeover of the organization brings up issues about its bearing.
The firm declared in April it was dealing with an alter button, soon after Mr Musk - who had called for such an element - uncovered he had purchased an enormous stake in the organization. Twitter said the occasions were irrelevant.
Mr Musk has likewise said he sees potential in a membership model in which individuals would pay to utilize the stage.
Dr Nikki Usher, a reporting teacher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said it was difficult to tell whether Twitter was evaluating new configurations out of benefit or a certified craving to attempt to work on the stage.
"For this situation, something we truly do know is that individuals could do without to peruse long texts on the web," they told the BBC.
"So whether giving individuals 2,500 characters to work with will at last have an effect in the nature of the computerized open arena - all things considered, I believe it's far-fetched. Is it an opportunity to snatch titles ahead of a few significant changes at the organization? Totally."