Twitter to check long-form 'Notes' characteristic with small group of writers

Twitter has added a brand new option to kind messages longer than 280 characters.

Twitter unveiled "Notes" Wednesday, a brand new characteristic that can enable customers to write down longer messages on the social platform. This characteristic will let customers create content material with wealthy formatting and uploaded media in blog-like posts, which may then be tweeted and shared with followers upon publishing.

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"We're testing a option to write longer on Twitter," the social community introduced on Wednesday. The perform is at the moment out there as a closed check to a "small group of writers" in hopes of figuring out "how greatest to help individuals who come to write down on Twitter," the corporate mentioned in a assertion.

The brand new perform seems to broaden Twitter's current makes an attempt to interrupt into the publication market, significantly with its acquisition of the publication writer Revue in January 2021. Notes might be restricted to 100-character titles and a pair of,500-word posts.

Customers will see the Notice card of their timeline in the event that they comply with a author, if somebody posts a Notice URL in a tweet, or if the Notice card is retweeted.

The brand new perform could present some competitors for the Thread Reader App, which takes Twitter threads and summarizes them in a single place. Notes may also enable those that want to put up a Twitter thread over a number of tweets to compile the textual content right into a singular place as soon as the perform is on the market to the broad public.

The characteristic was beforehand noticed by researchers in Could below the title "Twitter Articles," in accordance with TechCrunch. The perform included a blog-like display interface, media embeds, and embedded tweets.

Twitter didn't say when the characteristic can be out there to the general public.