Twitter Tests New Feature Tweetstorm for Long Format Messages on Ios and Android

Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that will allow its users to easily create chains of individual tweets that exceed Twitter’s 280-character limit for messages.

According to tech blog Android Police, “Back in September, a developer discovered a hidden feature in Android’s Twitter app that would allow you to type out several tweets and queue them to send one by one, making it easier to launch a “tweetstorm” without having to type and send each tweet individually.”

The feature will allow users to compose a series of separate Tweets, and press a ‘Tweet all’ button to send all the Tweets out in consecutive order.

The feature is being tested on iOS and Android alpha and beta programs, but it is not yet clear when the feature will roll out to all users.

The news follows Twitter’s recent character limit expansion from 140 to 280 characters.

HOW THE TWEETSTORM WORKS

Each of the new Twitterstorm tweets will be able to support the new 280-character limit, and each will be able to stand alone and can be shared, retweeted or replied to individually.

If the new feature is available to you, you’ll be able to:

• Hit a ‘+’ button on the right side of Twitter’s compose screen
• Compose separates tweets, and when finished, tap the ‘Tweet All’ button to post them all
• The Tweets are then queued and posted consecutively

Twitter said it hoped the move would stop people having to ‘cram’ their thoughts into 140 characters.

Even without the Tweetstorm feature, Twitter users still compose their own Tweetstorms by posting successive Tweets.

It’s used by everyone from the likes of President Donald Trump, to people telling suspenseful or personal stories.

Each of the new Tweetstorm tweets will be able to support the new 280-character limit, and each will be able to stand alone and can be shared, retweeted or replied to individually.

The social media platform has been in the news lately for its  new features and change of policies and just last week Wednesday, Twitter took steps to curb abuses on the platform, stripping away its coveted blue verification badge from a pair of white nationalists. Twitter has long offered the badge as a way of authenticating accounts that are of public interest, handing them out to public figures and organizations in entertainment, politics, business, sports and the media.