Goodbye brevity, hello rambling: Twitter Blue introduces 10,000-character tweets

Twitter has decided to drop the brevity game with their new feature, Twitter Blue. The social media giant is allowing paying subscribers to post tweets up to 10,000 characters, meaning you can now write an essay on the fly. However, with only 1% of Twitter's users signed up for the Blue version, most people might just stick to the good old tweet thread.

Twitter is also rebranding its paywalled "Super Follows" feature to "Subscriptions" and Twitter won't be taking a cut of the revenue for the following year. This move is part of Twitter's attempt to become a Substack-like newsletter service, but it's no surprise that Twitter temporarily blocked all things Substack on its platform.

Ironically, Substack is trying to become more like Twitter with its short-form Notes feature. Are we entering a new era of blogging rivalry? Who knows, one thing is for sure, Twitter Blue is making sure that its subscribers won't be short and sweet anymore.

Rapid Rundown

• 💬 Twitter Blue offers 10,000 chars. tweets, bold & italic options.

• 📰 Super Follows renamed "Subscriptions," Twitter takes no cut for a year.

Angry Birds Find a New Nest with Sega’s $775 Million Purchase of Rovio

Sega is about to get a flock of new feathered friends as it shells out $775 million to buy Finnish game maker Rovio. You know, the guys behind Angry Birds? Yeah, those birds. They used to be the top dogs (or birds?) in Finland with over 5 billion downloads of their game. But lately, they’ve been losing feathers as players flock to other games like Candy Crush and Clash of Clans. So Rovio kicked the original Angry Birds game out of the Google Play nest in February to push players towards other games with microtransactions.

Rovio has been looking for a new perch for a while now. The Israel-based Playtika, which makes mobile games and slot machines, offered to buy them for $735 million in January. Rovio’s stock soared to a nine-month high when the news broke, but the two never sealed the deal. For Sega, this acquisition gives them a talon-hold in the mobile gaming market. “The mobile gaming market is growing like crazy and we want in,” squawked Sega CEO Haruki Satomi in a statement.

Rapid Rundown

• 💰 Sega shells out $775 million to acquire Angry Birds Maker Rovio.

• 📱 Acquisition gives Sega a foothold in the lucrative mobile gaming market.

Google's $3 Billion Loss: Samsung Has a New Crush on Microsoft's Bing

Samsung is considering dumping Google as its default search engine and switching to Microsoft's Bing. This move could cost Google around $3 billion in annual revenue, which is a lot of dough, even for a search giant.

But Google is not taking this lying down; they are working on an overhaul of their search engine called "Magi" to make it more conversational and personalized. They plan to add features that will show users preselected items to buy or topics to research. They are even developing a chatbot that can help users learn new languages, although it remains to be seen if it can teach them how to order a beer in a foreign country.

One thing's for sure: Google and Samsung's relationship is on the rocks, and it looks like they might be breaking up. But don't worry, Google will always have Apple. Oh, wait, their $20 billion deal is up for renewal this year. It's a tough world out there for a search engine.

Rapid Rundown

• 📱 Samsung considers Bing as the default search engine over Google.

• 🔍 Google fights back with Magi, its conversational and personalized search engine.

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