How Apple Uploaded An Hour-Lengthy Episode Of Silo On TwitterPublished 21 hours in the past

Apple has uploaded the primary episode of its Sci-Fi authentic TV collection—Silo—to its Apple TV Twitter deal with. Which means anybody with a Twitter account can watch the primary episode of the TV present without cost—with out paying a dime for Apple TV+. Nonetheless, this raises the query of how Apple was in a position to add the ‘Freedom Day’ episode, which has a run time of greater than an hour, on Twitter.

Merely put, this was solely attainable because of Twitter Blue’s function, which permits paying subscribers to add lengthy movies in 1080p decision. 

Musk, who was the brains behind the current overhaul at Twitter after buying the micro-blogging platform for a whopping $45 billion final 12 months, stated, “Watch all the first episode on this platform. Nice transfer by Apple.” Customers have been utilizing this Twitter Blue function to add lengthy format content material ever for the reason that function was made broadly out there.

What’s humorous is the truth that Apple was one of many first main firms to “largely cease promoting on Twitter” when misinformation unfold all through the platform throughout the introduction of the revamped Twitter Blue, which granted the flexibility to acquire a ‘blue tick’ so long as you had been a paying subscriber. “Apple has largely stopped promoting on Twitter,” Musk stated when Apple threatened to withhold the social media large from its App Retailer again in November 2022. 

Twitter Blue is a paid subscription service which presents quite a lot of options—together with the flexibility to submit lengthy movies, get a blue checkmark, edit tweets, submit lengthy tweets, and attain a wider viewers. It prices Rs 650/month on the net, Rs 900/month on iOS or Android, or Rs 6,800/12 months on the net or Rs 9,400/12 months on Android or iOS. We suggest buying the subscription on the net as a way to apply it to any machine—together with iOS or Android.

Silo is predicated on a ebook trilogy by Hugh Howey titled Wool, Shift and Mud. It stars Rebeccca Ferguson as Julietter Nichols, Tim Robbins as Bernard Holland, David Oyelowo as Holston Becker, and Frequent as Robert Sims. The finale episode of the primary season is about to air on the approaching Friday.