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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  655 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

To catalog how.. wonderfully... things are proceeding over at Twitter:

Now, if you fork over the $8/month for a certified Muskian Blue check mark, you buy your right to longform tweets.

So how is the implementation going? In the Twitter app (iOS):

And after clicking the link to be able to read the rest of the tweet?

It takes you to an instance of your phone's native web browser, and serves you a message that Twitter is better in the app.

I thought it might be an issue with my Twitter app version. So I updated it. The result:

There is no longer any way to access the rest of the tweet! No way whatsoever to read past the old character limit.

Oh, how I wish there was still a way to short Twitter stock.

edit: hmm, at least some long-form tweets seem to be loading properly. It's still a stupid idea, I think, because one of the appeals of twitter was to encourage succinctness.