Following Musk’s announcement, NBC News writer Ben Collins noted that Twitter had been testing a text-sharing sharing function before Musk’s takeover. “He’s claiming credit here for a lot of work done by certain people before he laid them off,” he said. Indeed, at the start of the year, app develoseveralnchun Wong uncovered indications that Twitter was working on a “Articles” feature for submitting lengthier messages.
Twitter also started putting in place some of the infrastructure required to enable its revised Twitter Blue membership on Saturday. Users will be able to pay $8 a month to verify their account and receive access to a number of other services, such as the ability to post longer movies and view fewer advertisements. Musk has said that Twitter will try to help content producers, but he has yet to provide specifics on how the firm intends to do so. Since his takeover, several high-profile users have quit Twitter, including Nibellion, the proprietor of one of the platform’s most prominent gaming news accounts.
