Elon Musk Suggests Twitter May Allow for Posting of Lengthier Content

Elon Musk, the proprietor of Twitter, has suggested that the platform will soon enable users to share lengthy and intricate articles. Musk responded to a user by stating that Twitter will permit users to post extensive articles containing various media elements, and even go as far as “publishing a book” if they desire.

Twitter has gone through a number of significant changes under Elon Musk’s leadership, and is now vastly different than it was before he acquired it. With long-form content like articles and books, Twitter could want to add new content formats, and this makes sense considering that now Twitter has finally made it possible for content creators to earn ad revenue from their content.

“We are expanding our content creator monetization offering to include ad revenue sharing for content creators,” Twitter said last week.

It is likely that if the article feature is implemented on Twitter, it will be placed behind Twitter’s blue paywall to incentivize Twitter users to purchase a subscription.

In particular, Twitter already offers a limit of 10,000 characters to paying Twitter Blue subscribers. While this is significantly more than the 280 character limit for unpaid subscribers, Twitter Blue users already use the extended character limit to post long content that was previously only possible by creating tweets. There is no word yet on the length of Twitter articles and when the feature will be available.

In addition to the ability to send long tweets, Twitter also offers many other features such as the ability to edit tweets, send 1080p videos up to 2 hours long, and of course, get a verified “blue checkmark”. Twitter Blue is also a prerequisite for receiving advertising revenue. To be eligible, users must have a Stripe paid account, be a verified user, and have had at least 5 million impressions on their posts in the past three months.