X unveiled a feature called Articles, designed for long-form content creation. This tool is accessible exclusively to Premium+ members and verified entities, enabling them to craft posts with rich text elements, embed content from X, and incorporate videos and images, much like one would on a platform such as WordPress or Medium.
Following a move last year by the platform, now under Elon Musk‘s ownership, to extend the maximum length for extended posts to 25,000 characters for subscribers, Articles expands this limit even further to 100,000 characters, as reported by Engadget.
Chris Bakke, whose company Laskie was acquired by X, demonstrated that the feature supports structured elements like bulleted lists and links within posts.
Before Musk’s acquisition, Twitter introduced Notes, a similar tool for extensive publications in 2022, which was later suspended under Musk’s direction. Other changes included discontinuing ad-free articles and closing down the newsletter service Revenue.
However, Musk indicated in July 2023 the platform’s ongoing efforts to facilitate long-form content publishing, including text and multimedia, suggesting the possibility of publishing book-length works under the newly termed “Articles” function.
In February, the social networking platform expanded its voice and video communication capabilities.
Previously, this feature was only available to premium subscribers, but it will now be accessible to everyone on the platform.
X engineer Enrique Barragan announced the new expansion in a platform post, following Elon Musk’s promise in January to make the feature available to all users once it was sufficiently robust.
This move could bring the X platform closer to Musk’s goal of making it an “app for everything,” as he has repeatedly stated.
