As you’ll be able to see on this instance, the Notes UI is pretty primary, with all of the common components of a weblog publish composer, together with the capability to incorporate header pictures, to insert pictures and hyperlinks inside the textual content, and a streamlined choice so as to add in tweets.

As soon as revealed, Notes will seem as a Twitter card, linking customers by means of to the complete publish – right here’s an instance shared by Matt Navarra:

Faucet by means of and also you’re taken to the complete textual content:

Notice titles are restricted to 100 characters, and the physique of a Notice will be as much as 2,500 phrases, providing you with a heap extra room on your longer-form content material within the app.

And in contrast to tweets, Notice writers will be capable of edit their notes after they’ve been revealed, with an ‘Edited’ label added to the highest of the Notice.

Which appears so easy – an ‘edited’ label. Think about that on precise tweets.

Lastly, notes will even have distinctive URLs which individuals can navigate to from exterior of the Twitter platform, ‘whether or not or not they’re logged in to Twitter, and even when they don’t have a Twitter account’. That can facilitate broader sharing exercise, and will make it a extra invaluable long-form choice.

Doubtlessly.

Twitter’s been making an attempt to combine its personal blogging-type platform for years, with a view to cater to customers who find yourself tweeting both lengthy tweet threads or including screenshots of textual content to their tweets.

Certainly, again in 2016, when then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defined that that firm was potential choices to allow longer posts inside tweets (which finally resulted within the enlargement of tweet size to 280 characters) he used a screenshot of textual content to speak his logic.

Including its native Threads choice offered further capability on this entrance, whereas Twitter additionally bought publication platform Revue final yr, which it now prompts customers to check out in the event that they’re trying to publish longer textual content updates.

Notes will broaden upon the identical – however it stays to be seen whether or not customers really need, or have to publish longer type content material of this sort direct to Twitter itself, or whether or not they’re higher off re-directing customers to their very own web sites and WordPress blogs, the place they will collect customer information, serve advertisements and extra, inside a component that they management.

I imply, clearly there’s some want for longer content material choices on Twitter, at instances – however will writers actually wish to be publishing direct to Twitter, given most have seemingly already established their audiences through different instruments?

Apple’s ATT replace has additionally prompted extra individuals to contemplate first-party information, and the worth of constructing direct connection, unbiased of social platforms and digital suppliers, and on this sense, Twitter Notes does appear somewhat outdated or ill-timed.

However nonetheless, it might present new promotional alternatives – and it’ll even be attention-grabbing to see if Twitter customers themselves are eager to learn longer type, native tweet weblog posts, which would be the actual story in the long run.

Proper now, nonetheless, Twitter says that Notes received’t see an algorithmic increase, and received’t get any type of precedence over common tweets. So the worth doesn’t appear to be large, however hopefully, Twitter will share utilization information quickly.

Twitter’s Notes choice shall be made obtainable to a specific group of writers, as chosen by Twitter, to start with.