Twitter becomes more transparent and increases the number of characters 🛡️

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Twitter 2.0, as Elon Musk likes to call it, keeps changing. The latest features include more transparency on restricted tweets and an increase in the character limit in tweets.

Freedom of Speech, Not Reach 🛡️

Before buying Twitter, Elon Musk pledged that he would put free speech back at the heart of the platform. However, in reality, this has not always been the case, and some laws require social networks to have moderation systems. This is probably one of the reasons why Twitter 2.0 has adopted its philosophy: Freedom of Speech, Not Reach.

Simply put, you have the right to say whatever you want on Twitter. But Twitter can restrict the reach of your tweets that violate their rules by making your content less discoverable, if at all. While this feature isn’t fundamentally new, as evidenced by Twitter’s recently unveiled algorithm, it’s its implementation that is. Indeed, Twitter will soon add visible tags to tweets identified as potentially violating the rules. Both the author and readers will then know that the visibility of the tweets has been restricted.

Source : Twitter

Source : Twitter

Source : Twitter

In addition, no advertising will be placed around content labeled as limited. Authors will be able to submit comments if they believe their tweet has been inappropriately restricted. The rollout of these tags will be phased in over the next few months. The tags will initially apply to tweets that may violate hateful conduct rules, before being expanded to other applicable policy areas.

Tweets can now contain up to 10,000 characters 😯

Long gone are the days when a tweet was only 140 characters. When the character limit was increased to 280 characters, no one could imagine that it would increase significantly. In fact, the whole Twitter experience is based on micro-blogging.

With the arrival of Elon Musk at Twitter, the limit was first raised to 3,000 characters. Now it is 10,000 characters. As a bonus, it is now possible to format text in bold and italics. However, this new feature is only available to Twitter Blue subscribers, and is part of Twitter Write, an attempt by Twitter to adopt a longer format. That’s why it also requires the activation of subscriptions on your account, via the « Monetization » setting.

What do you think of these new features from Twitter? Will this step towards transparency improve the platform? What about long-form tweets? Tell us all about it in comments.

Sources : Twitter Safety, Twitter Write