Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

Recently being spotted Testing a way to share long textMater X Contest threads are now officially Rolling The feature that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters to their post. The additions are designed with the needs of the creators, as it supports connection to the outside content of the thread like newsletter, blog, podcast and more.

Before this update, threads have supported 500 characters – which is much higher than 280 letters given to X’s already verified by X’s. However, in the X2023, he introduced a way for its provided customers Post up to 25,000 characters, Creator hoping to encourage their content directly on their platform.

Meta, meanwhile, is not so far. Instead, the company has said that 10,000 letters give people more space to express themselves, but allow the others to be “wherever they are”, even in threads, even in threads.

Before the launch, the meta noticed that people were using screenshots to share long contents from books, articles, newsletters, podcast transcripts and more, which inspired the addition and design of the feature.

The company found that its users often wanted to point out the key work or place to buy their own work after starting a conversation on the subject in threads. For example, authors may want to share text from an upcoming book to drive the prierars, where journalists may want to promote one of their long features.

In XA, users have worked around the screenshot of the apple or uploading screenshots from apple notes like Apple’s notes. Looking at this trend, X tried to capitalize on the demand for a long character’s calculation by creating a payment feature.

Threads, of course, make its additional letters free.

The company has confirmed to TechCrunch that posts with text attachments at the moment do not have a plan to cash. Also, the meta has mentioned that text can be formatted with text highlighting, bold or underlined text, strikethrough and italics. You can even add emoji.

The company says it is also searching for additional enhancements based on community response.

Significantly, the meta has said that if the manufacturers are linking to the outside of the thread, the link will be “distinguished” in the attachment to click the viewer. This is the XA shot, which has changed its user interface Visibility of downplay linksAnd often Block Links Owner Elon Mask’s jerks in the outdoor services.

Although there are some errors for using long text of the thread.

The contents of the text attachments will not be indicated by search engines like Google and it will not be federated. The second refers to how threads support the expression of its posts Greater Open Social Web, Including decentralized services like Maston. This support allows users to search and follow from other servers in addition to threads, see who follows you and who likes your post from those servers, as well as to view and prefer posts on threads posted by users on other servers.

Meta says it is exploring how long text attachments can federate for a future repeat.