Twitter Blue Users Can Now Upload Two-Hour Long Videos, Musk Confirms

Musk has expressed his ambition to transform Twitter into an "everything app" and compete with platforms like YouTube.

Twitter recently added new playback speed controls on the Web.

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Twitter has introduced updates to its paid Twitter Blue plan, enabling subscribers to upload videos up to two hours in length, a significant increase from the previous 60-minute limit. Furthermore, the company has made changes to its Twitter Blue page, announcing that the video file size limit for paid users has been expanded from 2GB to 8GB. Previously, longer video uploads were only possible through the web interface, but now users can also upload longer videos through the iOS app. However, the maximum quality for uploads remains at 1080p.

Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter has been making efforts to support longer video uploads and enhance the video viewing experience. 

Twitter Blue Verified subscribers can now upload 2 hour videos (8GB)!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2023

The platform introduced the long-video upload feature in December and recently added new playback speed controls on the Web.

oh snap... Twitter know has playback speed; catching up to modern podcast players/youtube quickly

please add automatic transcripts & downloads to the roadmap @elonmusk https://t.co/8yUpnFpVLB pic.twitter.com/8LD88v1D5h

— @jason (@Jason) May 15, 2023

Taking advantage of the extended video upload feature, shows like the All In Podcast have started uploading their episodes on Twitter, as reported by TechCrunch. Additionally, following his departure from Fox News, Tucker Carlson has expressed his intention to launch a new show on the social media platform.

Musk has expressed his ambition to transform Twitter into an "everything app" and compete with platforms like YouTube. To achieve this goal, he has introduced several creator-focused tools, such as increasing the character limit to 10,000 for paid users, introducing support for text formatting, and relaunching Super Follows as Subscriptions.

Recently, Twitter underwent a significant management change, appointing Linda Yaccarino from NBCU as the new CEO. Elon Musk announced that he would remain as chairman and take on responsibilities like "CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops."

In addition to these developments, Twitter is also facing competition from alternative social networks like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Post.News. A recent study conducted by Pew revealed that 60% of U.S. Twitter users took breaks from the platform for several weeks within the past year.