For now, Twitter is mainly known for its 280-character limit for posting a tweet, in which most of its users must restrict their content to the character limit or chain multiple posts under the primary tweet called a thread.
Twitter has confirmed that it is testing a new feature on the platform called Notes. With this feature, Twitter users will be able to write long-form text on the site which is more like blogs instead of cramming their information into a ‘tweet’ of 280-character.
“Twitter Write is a composer tool that lets writers create stories and other long-form content, called Notes, for their followers to engage with—all on Twitter”
https://twitter.com/TwitterWrite/status/1539640956915290112?t=8dQlLsoWnyS2bdQ6DX4lcQ&s=19
However, not quite long that they got sued and fined $150 Million by US Government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for Data Privacy Violation
About Twitter Note Feature
The news is not exactly surprising considering that rumors of Twitter working on a long-form writing feature have been making their way around the internet for the last several months.
Note will be a distinct part inside the app that users of Twitter will be able to access in order to compose their lengthy content and then save it under the ‘Write’ tab. This longer text may then be published by embedding it into a tweet at a later time.
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Notes’ rich-text editor will enable writers to structure their words in a variety of ways, including bolding, italicizing, and other techniques, with the goal of providing Twitter users with greater flexibility and control. The titles of Notes are restricted to 100 characters, but the body of a Note can contain as many as 2,500 words before Twitter ends the post. This provides more than enough room for users to describe their interests.
“A Note title is limited to 100 characters, and the body of a Note is limited to 2,500 words.”
How To View Notes
Notes can be viewed inside or outside Twitter, to read the information, click on the Note card, then Twitter domain will launch a new mobile browser web page for the user’s convenience where the notes will be displayed, or as an alternative, you may go directly to a writer’s profile to view their written notes.
Observations
As the feature is still being tested, it is only available in a few places right now, like the US, the UK, Ghana, and Canada.
Twitter also remarked that a group of writers has been assisting the site in testing the new feature by posting long-form posts that include a mixture of other tweets, images, and videos.
“A small group of writers are helping us test Notes. They can be read on and off Twitter, by people in most countries.”