In what could be one of Twitter’s most important improvements since expanding the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is planning to debut a new feature that will enable direct publishing of long-form material on its platform.
Users will be able to compose articles utilizing rich formatting and uploaded media with Twitter Notes, which will then be tweeted and shared with followers once published.
We hear that the feature is being tested with a small group of users ahead of a public introduction. (Twitter declined to comment, but said it will provide updates on the service “soon.”)
Twitter Notes, if widely embraced, have the potential to transform how certain users use the social media network to convey their more in-depth thoughts and ideas. There is related tweet as well mentioned.
Today, users frequently establish numbered Twitter threads to join a series of tweets together as a way of narrative or when describing any subject that exceeds Twitter’s supported character count.
As a result of this user activity, Twitter formally welcomed threads in 2017 with the launch of a new Twitter composer screen that made multi-tweet posts, often known as tweet storms, easier to design and publish.
According to the firm, there were hundreds of thousands of threads uploaded every day at the time. That figure has most certainly since increased.
However, while Twitter threads stimulate participation by allowing users to expand linked tweets and responses, they may also be cumbersome to navigate, especially for longer content.
This has given rise to useful bots such as Thread Reader App, which converts these tweetstorms into links with the thread’s individual posts formatted like an article for reader.
These days, users frequently request the bot’s assistance with thread replies by tweeting “@threadreaderapp unroll.”
App researchers such as Jane Manchun Wong and others discovered the feature in testing earlier this year. Researchers discovered that Notes was once referred to as a “Twitter Article.”
The feature offered formatting tools in a bar at the top of the screen similar to those found in blogging software, such as options to bold text, add italics or strikethrough, insert ordered lists, add links, change the style, insert media and embedded items, track word count, and more in images Wong posted in May.
The samples also indicated that users may add one GIF, one video, or up to four photos to their article, as well as embed tweets via URLs or their own bookmarks.
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