It's finally happening — Twitter is introducing longer format tweets to its platform, giving users a new way to express themselves. While threads are nice, long-format tweets will be more concise, with users being able to use up to 4,000 characters to express themselves in one tweet. If interested, the feature is now live on the platform, but you'll need to be a Twitter Blue subscriber to take advantage.

The announcement came out of nowhere, and is quite surprising, considering that many have been asking for this feature for the past few years. Twitter does state that most things won't change despite the length of the tweet, with users still being able to incorporate images, polls, and use hashtags. If there is one drawback, it's that you won't be able to save drafts or schedule longer tweets. If you want an idea of how this will look in your timeline, you can check out the announcement tweet shared by the official Twitter Blue account below.

Perhaps best of all is that standard 280 character tweets will be shown on the timeline just as before, with a small "show more" indicator being available in the bottom right corner for those that want to expand the tweet. As mentioned before, the ability to author longer tweets will only be available to Twitter Blue subscribers, but everyone on the platform will be able to read them. In addition, all users will be able to quote and retweet longer tweets, but only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to respond to long tweets using up to 4,000 characters.

Of course, if you want to subscribe to Twitter Blue, you can do so, but it will cost you $8 per month or $11 per month if you're subscribing from an iOS device. You can also save some money if you go all in with an annual subscription, which can save you $1 per month.

Source: Twitter Blue