Twitter prepares "Articles": very long tweets or what?

In a short time we could receive the “Articles” of Twitter , a feature that for now raises questions, but could be a new type of tweets longer than normal. Twitter seems to bet on the text with “Articles” this time, after failed experiments with multimedia such as the Fleets, which were intended to imitate the Stories.

Currently, Twitter threads already allow you to create publications of a considerable length, but in this case everything points to the fact that we are facing a new format of tweets , of which we do not know more details.

The new format has been discovered in code by Jane Manchun Wong, an engineer with a long track record of hitting new social media and app features. He has even uploaded a screenshot to his Twitter account proving that “Articles” is in development:

Imagen - Twitter prepara "Artículos": tweets sin límite

The name in English is Twitter Articles , so the probable translation into Spanish will be Twitter Articles. Given that the leaked screenshot says “Create a Twitter Article!” with none in history, it seems clear that this is a new type of tweet available to everyone.

At this time, we don’t know the release date for Articles, and it could even be an experimental feature that won’t reach users if the Twitter team isn’t satisfied with internal testing.

The possibility of writing very long tweets collides with the spirit of brevity and immediacy of Twitter, but the truth is that all the initiatives of the social network to extend the length of the publications have worked well, as when the number of characters was doubled since 140 to 280.

Of course, it will be interesting to see what Twitter “Articles” is , and if it really is a new type of very long tweets, or if the format includes other innovations that allow creating quality content, beyond allowing extra characters.