tweets

Twitter has a history of sharing feature and design ideas it’s considering at very early stages of development. Earlier this month, for example, it showed off concepts around a potential “unmention” feature that would let users untag themselves from others’ tweets. Today, the company is sharing a few more of its design explorations that would […]

Twitter considers new features for tweeting only to friends, under ...

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social software TC tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Twitter is shutting down its experimental app twttr, which the company had used publicly prototype new features back in 2019. The app was first introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2019, then launched to testers that March. Its primary focus had been on trying out new designs for threaded conversations, including things like […]

Twitter finally shuts down its abandoned prototype app twttr

This entry was posted in Apps Social tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Twitter this morning is launching its own version of Stories — aka “Fleets” — to its global user base. The product, which allows users to post ephemeral content that disappears in 24 hours, had already rolled out to select markets including Brazil, India, Italy, South Korea, and most recently, Japan. The company, in a press […]

Twitter rolls out Stories, aka ‘Fleets,’ to all users; will ...

This entry was posted in Apps audio Social TC tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Twitter on Monday announced it will begin to add warning messages and labels to tweets spreading disputed or misleading information about COVID-19. The labels will direct users reading these tweets to a Twitter-curated page or to external resources that offer additional information and context about the claims being made in the tweet. The warnings, meanwhile, […]

Twitter to add labels and warning messages to disputed and ...

This entry was posted in Policy Social tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Brizzly, the name associated with a long-gone Twitter client, and later, a goofy project highlighting our addiction to social media, is coming back. And this time, it’s focused on serving the needs of Twitter power users in search of features Twitter itself has failed to build — like an Edit button and an auto-deletion option […]

New Twitter client Brizzly+ lets you ‘edit’ and auto-delete your ...

This entry was posted in Apps Social TC tweets and tagged twitter on by
Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called “Fleets,” starting in Brazil, which will let users post ephemeral content to its social network for the first time. Unlike Tweets, Twitter’s new Fleets can’t receive Likes, Replies or Retweets. And they’ll disappear […]

Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called ‘Fleets,’ ...

This entry was posted in Apps Social tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Hold that tweet — and add another one. Twitter is adding a new feature for mobile users to make it easier to link dispersed ‘shower thoughts’ together — and another thing styleee. Per 9to5Mac, the feature — which Twitter tweeted about yesterday — is slowly rolling out to its iOS app. (At the time of writing […]

Twitter adds a button so you can thread your shower ...

This entry was posted in Apps Europe microblogging Social tweet tweets and tagged social media twitter on by
Twitter in more recent months has been focused on making conversations on its platform easier to follow, participate in, and in some cases, block. The company’s latest test, announced via a tweet ahead of the weekend, will allow users to subscribe to replies to a particularly interesting tweet they want to follow, too, in order […]

Twitter’s latest test lets users subscribe to a tweet’s replies

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social tweets and tagged twitter on by
Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timelines by adding only those users whose tweets you want to track. And this can be done without having to also follow those Twitter accounts, which keeps your main timeline clutter-free. But […]

Twitter’s underrated Lists feature finally gets some attention

This entry was posted in Apps Social tweets and tagged twitter on by