Twitter is working on a concept of long tweets or ‘Articles’ in which you can read news articles, which has been discovered in the code of the app. Behind Articles is also a revenue model for media, because users can pay for exclusive articles. We discuss what has been leaked.
Twitter Articles
Twitter will soon exceed the known limit of 240 characters for tweets with its ‘Articles’. News will soon play a more important role on the platform if you will soon be able to read entire articles, the reverse engineering expert has confirmed that Jane Manchun Wong discovered in Twitter’s code.
You will soon be able to follow the articles of users and news sites and it is also possible to write your own articles. Twitter links a revenue model to its Articles, because users can read exclusive articles from the accounts they follow for a fee. There will also be a system of newsletters for which users can subscribe. It is not known exactly how that will work. It may be notifications on your phone that lead you in Twitter to a bundling of all Articles from a certain news source.
Ideas with varying degrees of success
Furthermore, the social media app is also working on a link with Twitter Blue, which is a paid subscription service that Twitter is testing in a limited number of markets. With Blue, users get a subscription to the Articles and exclusive content from various news platforms in one fell swoop.
Twitter experiments very regularly with new ideas and last year we got the ‘Fleets’, or tweets that automatically disappear after 24 hours, and Spaces: interactive listening sessions with speakers. Twitter’s new formats have had varying degrees of success and it remains to be seen what the impact of Articles will be once the feature becomes accessible. When that will be remains to be seen.
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