Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a brand new method to be exhausting on important. X now permits verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers to “Articles.”
The characteristic provides a primary text-editing interface that features embedded media and a few textual content formatting choices, like the flexibility to make bulleted lists. It additionally seems that articles will be longer than the 25,000-character restrict at present in place for premium subscribers’ “longer posts” characteristic. In line with my preliminary exams, 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 seems like:
Notably, Twitter started engaged on longer kind 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 publication writers and different creators to the service. Musk confirmed that the publishing instruments had 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 advice algorithm in order that hyperlinks to publication 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 ultimately returned, in a a lot smaller font).