Jane Manchun Wong, a Hong Kong engineer who often deconstructs the code behind services like Twitter to discover new features, recently discovered a description called "article" in Twitter's code, which seems to indicate that Twitter will break the original 280-character limit and allow users to share longer content.
Twitter's subsequent response emphasized that the company will continue to try new ways for users to share content, which seems to imply that this feature does exist.
Prior to this, Twitter only provided content sharing functions with 140 characters, but later further relaxed the character limit to 280 characters, allowing users to share more text content.
It is reported that this time users may be allowed to share long text content in the form of "articles", perhaps hoping to attract more people to use it and enhance the stickiness of content sharing.
However, whether there will be any usage restrictions for the "Article" function may still have to wait for Twitter to announce it, but it is expected that Twitter should still want to retain Twitter's original feature of only being able to share content with a limited number of characters.
Twitter is working on “Twitter Articles” and the ability to create one within Twitter
Possibility of a new longform format on Twitter pic.twitter.com/Srk3E6R5sz
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 2, 2022
