Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a brand new approach to be exhausting on fundamental. X now permits verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers to “Articles.”
The characteristic provides a fundamental text-editing interface that features embedded media and a few textual content formatting choices, like the power to make bulleted lists. It additionally seems that articles may be longer than the 25,000-character restrict presently in place for premium subscribers’ “longer posts” characteristic. Based on my preliminary assessments, I hit the character restrict for articles at simply over 100,000 characters or about 15,000 phrases.
Right here’s what the modifying interface appears to be like like:
Notably, Twitter started engaged on longer type posts lengthy earlier than Elon Musk’s takeover of the corporate. The corporate confirmed off an early model, initially known as “Notes”, because it appeared to lure e-newsletter writers and different creators to the service. Musk confirmed that the publishing instruments have been nonetheless within the works.
The rollout of publishing instruments is notable as Musk has typically been hostile to journalists on his platform. Final yr, Musk directed a change to X’s suggestion algorithm in order that hyperlinks to e-newsletter platform Substack would in customers’ “For You” feeds, which has throttled many impartial writers’ attain on the service. X additionally from information tales shared on the platform final fall (headlines finally returned, in a a lot smaller font).
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