Twitter tests new ‘Notes’ feature that allows users to share 2,500-word blog-style posts

Twitter is testing a new feature called ‘Notes’, which lets users post blogs of up to 2,500 words – and even edit them if they want to. 

Notes, which is being trialled with a small group of writers from the UK, the US, Canada and Ghana, lets people post text, photos, videos, GIFs and embedded tweets in a single piece of content. 

Twitter has a 280-character limit on a single tweet, so the only way Twitter users have been able to make lengthy posts previously is through a ‘thread’ – a series of connected tweets – or by posting a photo of a passage of text.

With Notes, users can go way past this limit and even edit what they’ve written after the piece has been published.