PARIS, Could 23 — Over on Twitter, long-form content material is scorching. After getting the power to write down lengthy tweets, customers at the moment are additionally capable of submit two-hour movies. A brand new possibility that’s already getting used for sharing pirated films.
It’s official. Twitter Blue subscribers have entry to a brand new function: the power to publish movies lasting as much as two hours. Elon Musk himself introduced this selection, which is at the moment solely accessible by way of the twitter.com web site or on the iOS utility.
Android subscribers are restricted to 10-minute movies, whereas different customers can nonetheless submit 140-second movies, or movies of as much as 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
Twitter Blue Verified subscribers can now add 2 hour movies (8GB)!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2023
Beforehand, Twitter Blue subscribers have been already capable of add one-hour-long movies to the social community.
This feature was utilized by some customers to share illegally pirated films on Twitter. By the top of April, The Tremendous Mario Bros. film had gathered greater than 9 million views by way of this platform.
This time, the account @coinbilly_ selected to share the film Shrek 3 and actually did so, instantly in a remark in response to the tweet of Elon Musk.
On-line for some time, the video was deactivated and the account was blocked for copyright infringement.
Different customers additionally took the chance to share different films like A Bug’s Life.
Twitter has taken a flip towards extra video, and Tucker Carlson lately introduced that his discuss present, booted from Fox Information, can be heading to Twitter though Elon Musk specified that “Tucker is topic to the identical guidelines & rewards of all content material creators” on the platform.
The arrival of Linda Yaccarino, the previous head of promoting and partnerships at US media conglomerate NBCUniversal, as the brand new head of Twitter, highlights this new emphasis on audiovisual content material. — ETX Studio