My Twitter account has been suspended indefinitely for a bogus claim about breaking Twitter policy. This time it had nothing to do with anything I said, but that hasn't stopped me from using the platform.
For the most part, I use Twitter to source for Football related information. I'm not big on opinion-based information but more about the facts because this is the transfer window and there's a lot of useless crap flying around.
Anyway, while on Twitter, I noticed some interesting changes that have taken place on the platform. You can now simply pay to be verified, there seem to be fewer bots and most importantly, there seems to be long-form content on the platform.
Twitter Blue turning into a paid service was something that I talked about a long time ago. I looked at it from the perspective that it would enable Hive blue ticks to push the toward out there and reduce the shadow ban barrier.
I am not sure about how the marketing of Hive is going with Blue Ticked Twitter accounts but I hope things have been successful. What I have noticed is that while being suspended, I can still scroll through Twitter but I have not randomly encountered any tweet about Hive, despite regularly encountering Tweets about NFTs on Ethereum.
Long-form content
The most fascinating thing about the recent changes on Twitter is the fact that verified accounts can now publish long-form content on the platform. Whether this be text or videos, there's a lot of long-form content being published on the platform.
Just like we can do on Leofinance, Twitter enables blue ticks to publish articles in the same way we can publish articles on front-ends like Leofinance. Thanks to this move, Twitter has pretty much become much like Leofinance but their execution is different.
On Leofinance, long and short-form content are not lumped together. You can choose which one you want to enjoy, thereby improving the user experience. Meanwhile, on Twitter, everything is just lumped together, although credit to them for making minor tweaks in the UI that prepare you for the long form content.
For what it's worth, Leofinance also took a leaf from Twitter when creating the short-from content side of the platform. However, the execution is much different and most importantly, your data is siphoned and sold to the highest bidder.
Leofinance started as a long-form content sharing platform on hive where people can share about finance-related topics but over the years, the platform has evolved into accepting a wider variety of content. The recent improvement in the platform also enables users to publish in other communities on Hive.
If you don't have any particular professional plan for Twitter, you might as well delete your account and just stick with Leofinance. There's no algorithm that tracks preferences like Twitter but you can still curate content using hashtags and that works very well.