Yesterday, Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter is developing its Notes feature, which started in June last year. Notes enables users to share long-form content on the platform. Before the introduction of Notes, Twitter had limited posts to a maximum of 280 characters. However, for subscribers of Twitter Blue, the character limit has been extended to 25,000.
A Taiwanese journalist, using the handle @faustochou, was the first to notice this development and mentioned that Twitter was also considering renaming the feature from “Notes” to “Articles”. In response to the journalist’s tweet, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, confirmed that users will have the ability to post extensive articles with various forms of multimedia. In fact, Musk humorously remarked that users could even publish a book if they desired.
Twitter introduced Notes as a solution to address instances where following threads becomes challenging. This feature enables users to consolidate all the text within a Note, eliminating the need to resort to posting screenshots of their Notes app to share substantial portions of text in a tweet.
A few features of Notes;
- Going beyond 280 characters
- Embedding photos and videos and GIFs and Tweets.
- Publishing Notes, readable on and off Twitter.
- Editing Notes, pre and post-publish.
- A Notes tab on your profile that holds your published work.
Meanwhile, Instagram launched its Notes feature in December, six months after Twitter Notes. Since then it has added several updates to its Notes feature with a more recent addition that includes support for music integration and translations, allowing users to further express themselves through music and easily translate Notes.
Twitter, however, remained silent ever since Elon Musk took over the company, save Fausto Chou who uncovered the story.
The availability of Articles to the public remains uncertain at this time. Given Elon Musk’s determination to transform Twitter into a subscription-based platform, it is highly likely that Notes, which is being developed into Articles, will be incorporated into Twitter Blue.
