John Ndlovu
Information and Technology Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twitter users with verified accounts have been given the privilege to upload videos on the social media platform as big as 8 gigabytes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This translate to a maximum of two hour video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The revelations were made by the Twitter owner, billionaire Elon Musk, in a tweet on his handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTwitter blue verified subscribers can now upload 2 hour videos (8GB).\u201dMusk said in a statement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new development by is one of the reforms he had promised to bring to the social instant messaging media platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will see videos as big as 8Gigabytes being able to be uploaded to the platform only by Twitter Blue handlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twitter Blue is a premium subscription based service offered by Twitter to it’s users. Users with this subscription have access to exclusive features that are not found on non-subscribers such ability to undo tweets, an ad-free experience and additional customization options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before the move, Twitter users were only allowed to upload videos lasting for a maximum of two minutes and a size of between 20 seconds long with a 32\u00d732 pixels by 1920\u00d71200 pixels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This comes at a time when the billionaire stepped just down from the helm of the company as CEO last Friday and roped in a new woman leader to the hot seat, the former NBCUniversal Chairperson Linda Yaccarino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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