No more 'notepad screenshots': Elon Musk said adding 'long-form text to tweets' is a 'high priority'

• Elon Musk said Twitter will launch a new feature where users can post "long-form text to tweets."
• He tweeted the idea Saturday after rolling out Twitter Blue, the paid-verification subscription.

Elon Musk said Twitter will launch a feature allowing users to add "long-form text to tweets" after rolling out a paid-verification subscription.

Musk tweeted on Saturday: "Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots."

He added: "Followed by creator monetization for all forms of content."

Twitter started rolling out its blue-check verification subscription for $7.99 as a description update was seen on the Apple App store on Saturday. Twitter Blue is now available on iOS devices in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The app's new description says other new features will be added soon, such as fewer ads for those who subscribe to Twitter Blue and the option for users to post longer videos.

The updated description also says Blue subscribers will get "priority ranking for quality content" and their posts will get higher priority "ranking in replies, mentions, and search."

The new product feature comes a week after Musk completed his $44 billion takeover. He also plans to fix the app's search function, which he said is a "high priority." "Search within Twitter reminds me of Infoseek in '98! That will also get a lot better pronto."

Twitter laid off thousands of employees, the equivalent of nearly half its workforce, on Friday. Musk tweeted later that day that there was "no choice" because the company was losing more than $4 million a day.

Jack Dorsey, the cofounder of Twitter, apologized on Saturday in a tweet: "I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly."

Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.