Since the Billionaire Elon Musk bought Twitterthe platform has suffered a series of changes. The most recent of these is that he launched a exclusive feature for Blue service subscribers; they will be able to tweet with up to 10,000 characters in a message, in addition to using bold and italics.
It’s about a considerably large change. Originally the platform allowed only 140 character tweetswhich is b.
However, recently and after Musk’s arrival at the company, the platform increased this capacity again up to 4 thousand characters in February. Now, the new expansion adds another 6 thousand to that amount.
This expansion, according to the company itself, is aimed at writers who use Twitter and look for new ways of monetize your content. This is combined with the subscription servicewhich is currently only available in the United States.
We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting.
Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable…
— Twitter Write (@TwitterWrite) April 14, 2023
This service allows creators to monetize their posts. This, through a system of exclusive content for people who pay for it. Musk himself said what For a year Twitter will not receive any profit from whoever uses this model.
Still, the creative people they will not receive all the income generatedas detailed by Musk.
The businessman explained that they will be creditors of the 70 percent of the earnings if the subscription is made on a mobile deviceDue to the commission that app stores have. On the other hand, if it is done in web, the profit will be about 92 percentdepending on the service that processes the payment.
For the next 12 months, Twitter will keep none of the money.
You will receive whatever money we receive, so that’s 70% for subscriptions on iOS & Android (they charge 30%) and ~92% on web (could be better, depending on payment processor).
After first year, iOS & Android fees…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2023
Twitter Blue hasn’t taken off
This new feature is a strategy from billionaire to attract new people to the Twitter Blue service. Until now, relatively few have been interested in paying by advanced tools.
According to data from The Information, Twitter Blue has about 290 thousand subscribers in the world; only 0.1 percent of the 250 million active users of the platform, according to information from 2022.
