Twitter relaunches blue tick, users to soon be able to post long posts as well

Today Twitter is relaunching the Blue check, which was delayed last month when users simply paid for a subscription and actually created fake accounts under other people's names. Twitter users will also soon be able to post up to 4,000 characters, up from the current 280 characters.  

The monthly subscription to the Twitter Blue currently costs $8, but it will cost $11 for users using the Twitter app from Apple devices.

Twitter Blue will also have an additional edit button feature that users have long asked for, although many argue that it increases the likelihood of misinformation spreading if a tweet is changed after it has been widely shared.

Twitter will also show fewer ads to Blue subscribers. In addition, they will be able to download and watch longer, higher-quality videos.

Previously, Blue was ticked for celebrities and politicians, certifying that their accounts were not fake. In addition, the test was provided free of charge. Eventually, however, the benchmark would be replaced with either a gold one (for businesses) or a gray one (for others, such as officials).

Under the new rules, if a user changes their name, they will lose their verification until Twitter retests the account.

4,000 characters instead of 280

Elon Musk announced that Twitter has almost removed the current limit of 280 characters for tweets. One Twitter user asked Musk if the social network was going to increase the limit to 4,000 characters. "Yes," Musk wrote, without going into detail.

It was previously reported that the social network would soon increase the character limit to 4,000 characters, but only the first 280 characters of a post would be visible to other users until they opened the post.

In early November, Musk announced plans to allow Twitter users to attach long texts to posts, introduce monetization for authors and improve search on the social network. Musk explained that Twitter would soon add the ability to attach long texts to posts, ending the ridiculous practice of taking screenshots from a notepad. Twitter currently has a 280-character limit for a text message; before 2017, the limit was 140 characters․