Elon Musk wasted no time after his arrival at the head of Twitter. Since Thursday, the head of Tesla has been making statements about the new options that he wants to launch in the social network.
The new owner of Twitter has already announced that he wants to form a content moderation council. The world’s richest man also hinted that accounts suspended for “minor or questionable” reasons could be reactivated.
More limits for tweets
In his new announcements, even through tweets in response to questions from netizens, Elon Musk was open to removing character limits on tweets.
Indeed, a user asked him if it was possible to “eliminate the character limit, or if it is necessary to increase it considerably”, invoking the desire for a more qualitative public debate than with short messages. Question to which Elon Musk replied “Absolutely”.
Today, a tweet cannot exceed 280 characters (against only 140 characters until 2017). With this announcement, Elon Musk reinforces his desire to transform Twitter into a less limited space.
The new head of the platform also affirmed, through an emoji, the possibility of increasing the duration of the videos on Twitter. His (very) brief response followed a user’s question: “Is it possible to increase the maximum length of videos? I have skits I’d like to post.”
On Twitter, a video cannot be longer than 2 minutes and 20 seconds to be uploaded to the platform. However, some brands can already share videos of up to 10 minutes, for a fee.
Soon verified account owners will also need to pay if they want to keep their blue badge. According to information from The Verge, new certified accounts will have to pay $20 to benefit from this certification.
Already verified users will have 90 days to pay, from the launch of the feature, or risk losing their credential. Note that according to US media, if Twitter employees don’t launch the program by November 7, they will all be fired.
Source: BFM TV
