Last Updated: March 11, 2024, 11:45 IST
Long-form video streaming on X will tackle YouTube
Musk has been promising to make X an ‘every little thing app’ and bringing lengthy movies to the platform does seem to be an enormous transfer.
Elon Musk continues to goal for the sky and his subsequent huge goal is YouTube. His platform X is able to serve a bigger viewers with a brand new model of streaming service that may also play on the large screens. Musk shared the main points in regards to the upcoming characteristic by means of a put up on the platform, the place he talked about folks watching lengthy movies on their sensible TV screens.
He has repeatedly talked about making X into an every little thing app, and it appears the characteristic set of the platform will quickly have a protracted checklist that ought to enchantment to tens of millions. X already helps video/audio requires all customers, together with these utilizing the platform free of charge.
You get different advantages just like the verified badge, edit button, longer posts and extra if you happen to pay for the X Premium service.
Musk didn’t share the precise particulars of the upcoming service and the way it plans to compete with a behemoth like YouTube and whether or not it is going to be free-to-all or stored behind the premium model which is prone to restrict its attain and viewers. It is probably going that X will begin providing the characteristic to its paid customers initially after which make it accessible for everybody.
Just a couple of days again, X launched ‘Articles’ which is a brand new approach to share lengthy-kind written content material on the platform. Those who’re Premium customers and pay for X providers can now put up articles on the platform with stylised textual content, embedded pictures and movies.
“Articles is a new way to share long form written content on X. Publishing Articles is a feature limited to Premium+ subscribers and Verified Organisations. Articles are available globally,” the corporate stated in a press release.
In addition to textual content, articles can embody pictures, video, GIFs, posts, and hyperlinks.
You may format textual content with headings, subheadings, daring, italics, strikethrough, indentation, numerical and bulleted lists. “Once published, an article can be read and shared by anyone on X according to the audience controls you’ve selected for the article,” stated the corporate.
