Not everything on Twitter revolves around the possible buyout by Elon Musk and accusations that the platform is being bugged by bots. The company introduced a new function that will allow us. developing and publishing more comprehensive content In the form of articles called notes.

For a long time, Twitter messages were limited to 140 characters, but at the request of the community, the platform increased this limit to 280 in 2017. With Notes, this limit does not change, but it is like sharing content as an alternative to classic topics. It’s bigger and has more personality.

Notes, the new Twitter for comprehensive content

As detailed by the companyThe new function allows Create articles up to 2,600 words. However, as we will see in the video below, it is also possible to add images, links and even apply different formatting options such as italic or bold. Doesn’t it remind you of the blogs of your life?

While not all about blogs, some features similar to these, along with Twitter’s potential to spread, can encourage many people to write. If it’s about writing detailed content, the social network also promotes content creation. newsletters From the acquisition and subsequent integration of Revue.

After writing a Note we can add it to a tweet to share with our followersbut it is available not only to them, but also to anyone without a Twitter account as long as they have the link which will allow the content to circulate outside the platform as well.

Twitter has enabled this new feature only in some regions. Canada, United States, Ghana and United Kingdom. During this testing phase, only some users from the specified countries will be able to create Notes, while everyone will be able to read them. There is no date yet for a possible global deployment.

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