Journalists, creators and long-winded VCs on X now have a brand new technique to be exhausting on predominant. X now permits verified organizations and Premium+ subscribers to “Articles.”
The function 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 presently in place for premium subscribers’ “longer posts” function. In response to 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 enhancing interface seems to be 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 seemed to lure publication 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 usually been hostile to journalists on his platform. Final 12 months, Musk directed a change to X’s suggestion algorithm in order that hyperlinks to publication platform Substack would in customers’ “For You” feeds, which has throttled many unbiased 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).
