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Twitter Blue is already available to Brazilian users for BRL 42 per month, but the social network’s differentiated subscription is already offering a very different feature to users in the United States —which, dare I say, might change the appearance of the platform for some profiles. That’s because, with this bonus, posts on the network will have a limit of 4,000 characters, and no longer 280, as for ordinary users.

With that, the famous “textão” will be released for some, reducing the need for threads from several tweets to tell a bigger story. The change is much more radical than the double from 140 to 280 characters in consolidated posts in 2017. Still limited to the US, the function has some limitations, such as the impossibility of scheduling texts or saving drafts.

need more than 280 characters to express yourself?

we know that lots of you do… and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get that.

so we’re introducing longer Tweets! you’re gonna want to check this out. tap this ????…

— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) February 8, 2023

To avoid endless timelines, larger tweets will have a “read more” button following 280 touches —a resource also used by other networks, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, to hide the text from those who don’t want to read it until the end .

The news was announced by Twitter Blue’s own profile, which brought a “big text” regarding the news. “Starting today, if you are a Twitter Blue subscriber in the US, you will be able to create longer Tweets.” “Most of the standard tweet functions still apply in this case, whether you want to post a photo, use a hashtag or create a poll.”

With that, Elon Musk’s promise of being able to write longer tweets was — or rather is being — fulfilled. There is still no information on when the novelty should arrive in more countries.

Thanks to the telephoto lens (or telephoto lens) of iPhone Pros, it is possible to capture zoomed images without losing quality and maintaining details. However, entry-level iPhones (the “non-Pro”) do not have this possibility, as they only have one camera or the second is an ultra-wide camera.

The 2.11 version of the app Halidehowever, has just arrived to remedy this problem with what they called Neural telephoto (Neural Telephoto). The resource offers 2x but zoom in a virtual lens, which uses machine learning to enhance every detail of the photos. The same system is already used — and acclaimed — in the Macro Mode available in the app.

The enlarged and enhanced photos will be in HEIC and JPEG formats, but the app will also capture a full RAW file, unedited and unzoomed, in case you want to adjust it later. By default, the app creates both a RAW file and an already enlarged and enhanced JPEG.

As you can predict, the resource does not compare to a real telephoto lens, but it manages to do better than most software that tries the same and ends up leaving photos distorted or with exaggerated sharpness.

The update that brings the news to Halide is now available for free on the App Store, also including minor enhancements and design improvements. The app subscription costs BRL 16 per month or BRL 63 per year, with the option of paying BRL 330 once.

iPhones 14 e 14 Plus

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