Elon Musk has simply introduced a helpful new perk for Twitter Blue subscribers. The social media platform now lets paid customers upload movies as much as two hours lengthy, with a file measurement restrict of 8GB. Longer video add can also be now potential via the iOS app. Video high quality remains to be capped at 1080p, although.
This modification comes amid Twitter’s push to make the platform extra interesting to creators in addition to customers. Musk has all the time been vocal about these plans, typically referring to the “new Twitter” of his imaginative and prescient as X, the every part app. He mentioned the identical when saying Linda Yaccarino as the brand new CEO of the corporate final week. The social community has taken a number of main steps in direction of this purpose over the previous few months, significantly after Musk accomplished his blockbuster $44 billion buy of the platform.
In December final 12 months, Twitter elevated the period restrict for video uploads from ten minutes to an hour. It additionally enabled uploads of video recordsdata as much as 2GB, 4 occasions the earlier measurement restrict of 512MB. That was adopted by some enhancements to the in-app media participant. Most notably, Twitter added playback-speed controls to match trendy media gamers which might be discovered on most comparable platforms. The corporate has now doubled the period restrict for movies and additional elevated the scale restrict by 4 occasions, no less than for Blue subscribers.
Sadly, as mentioned earlier, Twitter hasn’t added assist for higher-resolution movies but. It nonetheless solely allows you to add movies at 1080p decision. Hopefully, the corporate is engaged on upping the decision cap as effectively. In the meantime, Twitter customers can now add longer movies via the iOS app. Beforehand, it was solely potential on the Twitter net. This potential ought to quickly roll out on the Android app as effectively. As you’d count on, you possibly can watch longer movies on all platforms. You don’t want a Blue subscription both.
Twitter lately enabled encrypted messaging for Blue subscribers
Together with assist for longer video uploads, Twitter Blue subscribers get many different perks resembling a verified checkmark, 10,000-character-long, edit tweet, textual content formatting, two-factor authentication through SMS, fewer adverts, and extra. Final week, the corporate enabled encrypted messaging as effectively. It presently encrypts one-on-one conversations and doesn’t sync encrypted messages throughout units.
However Twitter will enhance its encryption and different newly-added options within the coming months. Elon Musk lately introduced that he’ll deal with the technical aspect of the platform, together with software program and sysops as soon as Linda Yaccarino takes over as the brand new CEO. Yaccarino will most likely deal with Twitter’s enterprise operations. Time will inform how the corporate modifications below this break up management.