Twitter testing 2,500 character restrict for a submit

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Fed up with Twitter’s character restrict? Fret not. The micro-blogging website is testing out a brand new function that may let individuals go over the 280-character restrict in a single piece of content material.

As per Variety, Twitter will provide you with a brand new function known as “Notes” that might enable customers to share essay-like write-ups as a hyperlink each on and off the social media platform.

With the brand new replace, customers can embody textual content — as much as 2,500 phrases — in addition to pictures, movies and GIFs in posts that may be written, revealed and shared on Twitter. The Note card will present up within the Twitter timeline as a tweet that comprises a preview of what is within the longer submit.

Currently, the corporate has launched a public take a look at of Notes with a small group of writers from the US, UK, Canada, and Ghana. “We’re currently running a closed test with a small group of writers who will help us learn how best to support people who come to write on Twitter,” the corporate stated.

Originally, Twitter posts have been capped at 140 characters, designed to suit into the official restrict for SMS textual content messages on cellphones. In 2017, it expanded the tweet restrict to 280 characters.

Twitteratis will probably be ready the brand new Note card of their timeline in the event that they comply with a author who posts a Note card; if somebody they comply with features a Note URL in a tweet; or somebody they comply with retweets or quote-tweets a Note card. Additionally, Notes may have distinctive URLs that individuals can navigate to from off the Twitter platform, whether or not or not they’re logged in to Twitter (and even when they don’t have a Twitter account).

Meanwhile, Twitter is in the midst of a USD 44 billion buyout by Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk.