Longer videos are now available on Twitter for anybody willing to pay the £8 monthly subscription cost.
The business has confirmed that paying customers would be able to submit movies up to 60 minutes in length, at 1080p, and up to 2GB in size by updating its Twitter Blue page.
That represents a significant increase above the previous Twitter Blue limit of 10 minute videos with a 512MB file cap.
Your time limit is a meagre 4 minutes if you’re merely a regular user.
This lengthier video capability has the terrible restriction that you must upload it to Twitter via the web using a laptop or desktop. The original upload restriction is still in effect if you intend to upload from an iOS or Android device.
Twitter also warns that, in order to distribute the video, it may alter the video’s quality.
‘We strive to maintain the highest possible video quality for all videos uploaded to our platform. However, we may modify or adapt your original video for distribution, syndication, publication, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or make changes in order to adapt it to different media, including modifying the resolution and bitrate of the original video while streaming based on the speed and stability of the viewer’s internet connection,’ the company said on a support page.
Twitter may be attempting to persuade more video artists to post on its platform rather than TikTok or YouTube by increasing the number of videos that may be uploaded.
However, the ruling inevitably raises a host of issues relating to piracy. What’s to stop individuals from uploading complete TV programmes with a 60-minute time limit, which would then need to be removed by a moderation team?
After a catastrophic initial launch, Elon Musk relaunched the Twitter Blue membership tier earlier this month. Users must pay £8 a month (or £11 if they have an iPhone) for the company’s extras, which include the ability to edit and delete tweets, receive priority treatment in conversations, and choose from a variety of themes and app icons.
