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  • Twitter Blue subscribers now have up to one hour to edit tweets, possible mailing list functionality

    Twitter Blue subscribers now have up to one hour to edit tweets, possible mailing list functionality

    The new Twitter Blue, rebranded and relaunched upon Elon Musk’s takeover of the popular social networking site, launched late last year with some exclusive features for its subscribers. One of these features is the ability to edit your sent tweets, albeit only for a limited time, a limit which has now been increased.
    Previously, the amount of time Twitter Blue subscribers had to edit a sent tweet was within 30 minutes of posting. This was considered a reasonable amount of time to fix a spelling mistake or to quickly fix any grammar issues noticed after the fact.
    However, there are instances in which you won’t notice a mistake until someone points it out, and that can happen at anytime and not just within a half hour window. To help with this, Twitter has recently announced a change in their policy pertaining to the editing of tweets and has extended this time frame to a full hour.
    This change is also reflected on Twitter’s Help Documentation, explaining how editing tweets actually work. To the surprise of many, editing tweets does not extend to replies, but only to original tweets and quote tweets.
    Edit Tweet: This highly requested feature gives you a 1 hour window to make a limited number of changes to published Tweets. Use it to make updates, tag someone, or reorder the media you attached. Edit Tweet currently only applies to original Tweets and quote Tweets.
    Meanwhile, Musk continues to experiment with new features within the platform. The latest announced via a tweet, seemingly in response to Twitch’s new controversial guidelines restricting streamers and causing a lot of backlash within that community and criticism from Musk himself.
    Though no further details have been shared on this announcement, it is safe to assume that this will function as sort of a mailing list for creators to keep of their subscribers should they ever want to leave the platform. It is unclear at this point how the opt-in process will work, but one could discern that it will be something that can be done in-app either while subscribing to a creator or anytime thereafter.
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  • Twitter is less safe now, former head of safety warns

    Twitter is less safe now, former head of safety warns

    Elon Musk now officially owns Twitter, and the move caused a big splash in the industry. The tech billionaire started his reign as head of the popular network by laying off staff “en masse” and then trying to rehire some of the valuable assets lost in the process. One such asset seems to be Yoel Roth, the company’s former head of trust and safety, who gave his first interview since his departure shortly after Musk took over.

    When asked whether he still felt Twitter was safer after Musk’s takeover at a Knight Foundation event, Roth said, “I don’t.”The interview comes at a very specific moment. Musk relaunched the Twitter Blue subscription service on November 29th. Roth believes that Musk is breaking procedures and his own promises and, in the end, wants to run Twitter by himself.

    “He would say things that were consistent with establishing a moderation council, that were consistent with not making capricious, unilateral decisions, and I was optimistic based on that,” Roth said. “My optimism ultimately faded.”

    But it’s not all horrible. Despite the statements above, Roth does not think Twitter will have a “spectacular moment of failure,” as several former workers have expressed concern after the company’s enormous layoffs and resignations.

  • Musk suggests that he wants to “go to war” against Apple, starts lobbing “tweet grenades”

    Musk suggests that he wants to “go to war” against Apple, starts lobbing “tweet grenades”

    These days you have to wonder just exactly what is going through the mind of multi-billionaire Elon Musk. After spending $44 billion to buy Twitter, Musk is acting like someone who never made a major decision in his life. He says one thing, reverses direction in a day and reverts back to his original thought a few days later. Can Twitter board members trust him to pick which flavor of ice cream cone to buy at Baskin Robbins? After all, the ice cream purveyor offers 31 flavors.
    Now, Elon is focusing (best as he can) on Apple. Reuters reports that Musk has disseminated several tweets in which he accuses the tech giant of trying to block Twitter from the App Store and said in a tweet that “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?” If true, Apple would be one name from a list of advertisers that have left the platform since the Musk era began for Twitter.
    He also tagged Apple’s CEO in a tweet that asked, “What’s going on here @tim_cook?” Ad metrics firm Pathmatics shows that Apple spent $131,600 on Twitter ads between November 10th and the 16th. That was down 40% from the $220,800 that Apple spent on Twitter ads between October 16th and October 22nd. That was the week before Musk closed on his Twitter purchase.

    According to a Twitter internal document, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter during the first quarter of this year having spent $48 million which accounted for 4% of Twitter’s revenue during the three months.

    Musk also railed against the so-called “Apple Tax,” which is the 15% to 30% cut of in-app transactions that Apple collects from developers for using its in-app payment platform. But in what can only be called an unhinged tweet, Musk writes “Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store?” At this point, especially after the current legal battle with Epic Games, we would hardly call this a secret tax. Nor would we call this tweet a “spoiler alert” as Musk writes.

    In a meme that the executive posted on Twitter and then removed, Musk suggests that he will “go to war” with Apple. Of course, some politicians used Elon’s ranting to complain about the App Store which has been under attack by lawmakers who see it as a monopoly since iOS does not allow sideloading. That is the use of third-party app stores to download apps on a device. Google allows this on Android, but Apple says that it bans sideloading to protect users from installing malware.

    Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who was one of the lawmakers seeking to pass antitrust legislation against large tech companies like Apple and Google, said, “This is why we need to end the App Store duopoly before the end of this year. No one should have this kind of market power.”
    White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that the White House was following the situation and in a statement, it was clear that the Biden administration is focusing on another, more troubling aspect of Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. ” She stated that “We have always been very clear that when it comes to social media platforms, it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation, when it comes to the hate that we’re seeing, that they take action.”
    Since Elon purchased Twitter, many users have complained about a proliferation of hate speech that apparently is now being tolerated on the platform. Such activity could get Twitter banned from the App Store and Google Play Store. According to a previous tweet from Musk, such action would lead him to develop an alternative phone to compete with iOS and Android handsets.
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  • Twitter says it is now testing the feature that is most demanded by users

    Twitter says it is now testing the feature that is most demanded by users

    Did you ever post a tweet and realize that you’ve made a huge mistake? Without an edit button, there is nothing that Twitter users can do except delete the post and write it again. However, most Twitter members aren’t interested in having to re-type a tweet. But Twitter posted a blog today in which it says that it is internally testing a new feature called Edit Tweet which will be limited at first to Twitter Blue subscribers.

    It is no surprise that an edit function has been the number one wish from Twitter users since most other social media apps offer some editing capabilities; what good is a social media app if you accidentally push out a missive that has the point you’re trying to make covered up by typing miscues? According to Twitter, “Edit Tweet is a feature that lets people make changes to their Tweet after it’s been published. Think of it as a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add missed tags, and more.”For the initial test, Twitter will allow tweets to be edited multiple times during a 30-minute time period following the publication of a tweet. Subscribers will be able to determine which messages have been edited because these tweets will carry an icon, a timestamp, and a label to alert users that a particular post has been modified. Users will be able to view the original tweet and other edits made to it by tapping on the label which pulls up that tweet’s Edit History.

    Later this month (it now is September folks!) subscribers to Twitter Blue will get the first shot at using Edit Tweet. Early access to new features is one of the things that Twitter Blue subscribers pay $4.99 a month for. Making the testing even more selective, the feature will not only be exclusive to Twitter Blue users, it will be tested in one country only at first and as Twitter sees how people are using Edit Tweet, it will expand the testing to other countries.

     

    “We’ll also be paying close attention to how the feature impacts the way people read, write, and engage with Tweets,” Twitter states in the blog post. The company adds that it wants tweeting to “feel more approachable and less stressful. You should be able to participate in the conversation in a way that makes sense to you, and we’ll keep working on ways that make it feel effortless to do just that.”

    Meanwhile, all eyes will be on the Delaware Court of Chancery for five days starting on October 17th. Twitter is suing the richest man in the world, multi-billionaire Elon Musk, for rescinding his $44 billion, $54.20 a share takeover bid for Twitter. Musk, who is countersuing, alleges that Twitter misrepresented to him the number of fake accounts on Twitter that are controlled by “Bots.”

    With Twitter shares currently trading at $38.71, investors have already priced into the stock the extremely low likelihood that Musk will consummate the transaction. Both Musk and Twitter are arguing over the scope of Musk’s demands in the Discovery phase of the pre-trial which is when both sides turn over material, including documents, pertinent to the trial.

    Twitter claims that Musk is asking for huge amounts of information that are not relevant to the main issue of the litigation. That issue is whether Musk violated the contract he signed with Twitter to purchase the firm. Most contracts of this type include a break-up fee that is paid by the party pulling out of the deal. Musk’s deal with Twitter calls for him to pay the company $1 billion if he doesn’t follow through with the acquisition. Musk has already said that he will refuse to pay it.

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  • Musk says Twitter deal could proceed only if these three issues are resolved

    Musk says Twitter deal could proceed only if these three issues are resolved

    A few months ago, Elon Musk surprised the internet (as the billionaire likes to do) with a $44 billion bid to buy out Twitter after earlier joining, and then shortly after, leaving, the Twitter board. However, the deal came to an unexpected halt when Musk doubted officially published Twitter statistics about fake accounts on the platform. Musk has three issues with Twitter deal and those will need to be resolved if the deal is to move forward.

    After bidding $44 billion to make Twitter his private company, Elon Musk had a change of heart. Doubtful of the number of fake accounts on the social media platform, the multi-billionaire threatened to walk away from the deal if no accurate information was provided. This, of course, means he could face a fee of reportedly $1 billion for breaking the deal up.

    Now, Musk has shared his three main issues concerning the buyout. Resolving them will mean the deal can move forward, it seems. Here’s what they are:

    This was actually the main reason why the deal was put on hold to begin with. Musk was concerned that the actual number of fake accounts on Twitter was higher than what Twitter had reported. And therefore, he insists on more clarity on how many actual users (a.k.a real people) are using Twitter.

    Twitter previously announced the number of fake bot accounts was below 5% of the daily active users on the platform, but Musk had an issue with that number. He also underlined that this is probably not what most people experience on Twitter.

    So far, there hasn’t been a resolution on this quite important matter.

    Well, well, it seems that multi-billionaires also have to take loans. The second issue Musk has is that there’s a pretty significant part of the funding that should come from bank loans. Pretty much, he committed to paying $33.5 billion in cash. He also received $7.1 billion in equity financing commitments from investors. The remainder is what will be loaned from banks.

    Musk may be a billionaire, but the majority of his wealth is in Tesla stock. He has now pledged billions in Tesla shares as collateral for those loans, but it seems he doesn’t like the situation that much.

    How will this be resolved is somewhat unclear at the moment. And last but not least, Musk has to gain approval from Twitter’s shareholders for the deal to become reality. Investors are reportedly going to vote on the deal in late July or at the beginning of August.

    As you might imagine, whether or not Musk will get shareholder support is a mystery. You know, he is actually being sued by some Twitter shareholders for the chaotic approach to the buyout deal, so some may not be in favor of him taking over.

    As you can see, it’s not only the disputed number of bot accounts on Twitter that has made Musk second-guess the deal. Factors such as financing and shareholder approval seem to also play a significant role in whether or not we will see this deal completed.

    However, the reported number of fake accounts is something that could be hard to resolve. Initially, when the dispute about the issue was getting a bit heated (on Twitter, of course, where else – and with curious choice of emojis from Musk), Twitter’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, underlined that in order to perform an external check on which accounts belonged to bots, Twitter would need to use private information. But Twitter doesn’t share such information, so it was, according to Agrawal, impossible to do the check.

    Well, we’ll have to wait and see what happens, as things are starting to look like the deal might not take place in the end.

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  • Twitter tests “Liked by Author” label for tweeted responses

    Twitter tests “Liked by Author” label for tweeted responses

    Elon Musk might have put his acquisition of Twitter on hold temporarily, but that hasn’t stopped the social media platform from continuing to make changes to spruce up the app. People discovered a new label on the Android Twitter app that surfaces when the author of a tweet “likes” a response to his message. TechCrunch says that it was told by Twitter that the company is testing different labels.
    Once the author of a tweet “likes” a reply sent in response to that tweet, the reply receives a badge that shows a heart followed by the words “the Author.” It indicates that the person responsible for the original tweet liked the reply. The badge can be viewed by the person who posted the response and others viewing the original message and the replies. It isn’t clear whether this will be a global response but so far there have been reports that the “Liked by Author” label has been seen in multiple countries.
    The label is similar to the “Liked by Creator” badge that shows up on TikTok when a subscriber who created a video on the app likes a comment that someone posted about it. The new label would allow Twitter subscribers to brag when their tweet has been “liked” by a celebrity. And if there is one thing that Twitter is full of, it is celebrity users.
    The company has been playing musical chairs with employees in the wake of Musk’s $44 billion bid for the social media site. And now Musk is concerned that he is overpaying for Twitter; with the number of users possibly lower than what the company has previously acknowledged, even the richest man in the world needs to make sure that he isn’t overpaying for his purchase.
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  • Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk buys a 9.2% stake in Twitter

    Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk buys a 9.2% stake in Twitter

    Billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has recently acquired a three billion dollar Twitter stake, which equates to about 9.2% of the social media company, or 73,486,938 Twitter shares.

    The news comes from a US securities filing, and according to the BBC, the acquisition, which reportedly happened on March 14, has now resulted in Twitter’s shares jumping up 25% in pre-market trading. With his acquisition, Musk now owns a larger Twitter share than the site’s original co-founder and until recently CEO Jack Dorsey, who currently owns 2.25%.

    Being a regular and prolific Twitter user, Elon Musk’s official profile currently has over 80 million followers. He’s used the platform to not only share his views on current events and update people on what his companies are up to, but to interact with fans, often Tesla users, and has been known to regularly share witty memes.

    This has created an image of being a different and fun, relatable “kind of billionaire,” as opposed to the likes of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

    Notably, the billionaire has used Twitter to share his views on the subject of free speech, and has been critical of social media sites, Twitter included, in regards to it.

    The 50-year-old billionaire’s first breakthrough was through co-founding x.com, which was later renamed to PayPal and sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Currently Musk is most well-known as the CEO of electric car company Tesla and aerospace manufacturer SpaceX.

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  • Twitter rolls back an update that angered many users

    Twitter rolls back an update that angered many users

    If you were one of the people who were upset by the recent change to Twitter’s timeline and were angry that you couldn’t easily see all of the latest tweets, you canrelax now because Twitter has restored its timeline to what it was before. Yes, Twitter ditched its latest timeline change, which displayed algorithm-based suggestions in your timeline by default. So you no longer have to go to a separate tab to see the most current tweets.

    In a tweet regarding its decision to roll back the change to the timeline, Twitter stated, “We heard you –– some of you always want to see latest Tweets first. We’ve switched the timeline back and removed the tabbed experience for now while we explore other options.”

    Twitter’s reverting to the previous state of the timeline is completely understandable. When Twitter divided chronological and algorithmic tweets into two tabs on its iOS app and announced that the change would be rolled out to the Android and Web versions of the platform soon, many Twitter users lashed out against the change to their timeline.

    According to many Twitter users, the change to their timeline meant that they would no longer be able to see the latest tweets easily. Furthermore, Twitter configured its app to display the algorithm-based suggestions first by default when you open the app. This meant that users had no control over what they would see when they launched Twitter’s app.

    Twitter stated in its tweet that it would “explore other options.” Let’s just hope that Twitter learned its lesson and won’t make the same mistakes again by introducing changes that will upset many of its users.

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  • Twitter working on a ‘Leave Conversation’ option to stop mentions in a thread you no longer care about

    Twitter working on a ‘Leave Conversation’ option to stop mentions in a thread you no longer care about

    Ever had a very annoying conversation on Twitter that you really wanted to forget and were not able to, because of constant tagging and notifications? Well, Twitter seems to be working on a feature that will allow you to just leave a conversation you no longer find productive or fun with a single button.

    We all know that sometimes, a Twitter thread can go on for a long time, and over time, it could get boring and even annoying to keep getting notifications and mentions about it. Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong has now discovered that Twitter will be working on making your life easier with a new feature called Leave Conversation.

    As you can see from the screenshot the reverse engineer provided, the button to Leave a Conversation will untag your name, stop future mentions on the thread from happening, and you won’t be getting any notifications about the conversation anymore.

    Basically, what it will do is turn the @ mentions of your username to regular text and prevent future notifications for the thread. So far, this feature is still in its testing period and it could be a while for it to be officially released to end-users. The thing is, some of these features that are tested take a long time (or some don’t even make it) for a final release, so keep that in mind.

    The Leave Conversation feature is not the only one the social media giant has been working on to improve the user experience on its app. Recently, we reported on the fact that Twitter has announced a pretty useful feature that allows you to pin Direct Messages.

    With this new feature, you will be able to pin select conversations at the top of your Direct messages, so you don’t have to spend some time scrolling looking for Twitter DMs with your friends or relatives. The cool thing is that the feature will allow you to pin up to six conversations to the top of your Direct Message inbox.

    This useful feature should roll out in waves to Android and iOS users, as well as for users on the web. Another recent feature that Twitter is testing, dubbed Safety Mode, has been in the works for some months and is now expanding to more users for feedback and insights

    The Safety Mode feature basically prevents accounts that send harmful and abusive posts from doing so. You can activate it to block accounts that use potentially harmful language or send repetitive and unwanted replies or mentions to you for seven days.

    Currently, the Safety Mode feature has rolled out to around 50% of users in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. On top of that, there will also be proactive Safety Mode prompts for the beta testers. With this feature, Twitter will proactively identify possible harmful posts and replies and prompt you to enable Safety Mode.

    Twitter is not set only on security features though, and some of the features it is working on are just additional options to enhance your experience on the social media platform. One such feature is the possibility to change the playback speeds of a video on Twitter, which is also currently being tested out.

  • Twitter’s latest update is all about Direct Messages

    Twitter’s latest update is all about Direct Messages

    Twitter is making all sorts of changes to its app almost on a weekly basis. Some of them are less important, while others are really useful even though they don’t get under the spotlight too often. After delivering the so-called “Good Bots” labels for all bot developers earlier this week, Twitter announced a much more important feature is making its way to users: the ability to pin Direct Messages.

    It’s a nifty feature that will allow Twitter users to put their conversations via Direct Messages up and center. Not only that, but Twitter lets users pin up to six conversations to stay on top of the Direct Message inbox.

    To pin a DM conversation simply swipe to the side and tap the pin to move the conversation to a new section called “Pinned conversations” that’s visible at the top of the DM inbox.

    According to Twitter, the new feature will be rolled out in waves to Android and iOS users, as well as on the web. If you don’t see it right away, be patient since it’s probably going to take a few days for everyone to have access to the ability to pin their DM conversations.

  • Twitter’s feature for blocking accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets is coming to more people

    Twitter’s feature for blocking accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets is coming to more people

    Twitter is expanding the beta testing of its Safety Mode feature to more of its users. In a tweet, Twitter announced that it is extending Safety Mode, a feature that enables Twitter users to temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets, to ‘several new English-speaking markets.’ The goal is, of course, for Twitter to gain more feedback and insights about its Safety Mode feature.

    But which are these ‘several new English-speaking markets?’ Well, Tatiana Britt, a spokesperson from Twitter said that Twitter will make Safety Mode available to around 50% of its users in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Previously, there were only around 750 beta users in the Safety Mode beta testing program.

    Also, with the beta testing expansion for Safety Mode, Twitter is introducing ‘proactive Safety Mode prompts’ to the beta testers. With this feature, Twitter’s system will ‘proactively identify’ possible ‘harmful or uninvited replies’ and will prompt the user to enable Safety Mode.

    As for the reason behind Twitter’s proactive approach, Britt said, “Since the initial rollout of the Safety Mode beta in September, we’ve learned that some people want help identifying unwelcome interactions. This update further reduces the burden on people dealing with unwelcome interactions.”

    In September 2021, Twitter announced the beginning of Safety Mode’s beta testing program. The goal of Safety Mode is to reduce disruptive interactions on the platform. Users can activate Safety Mode to block accounts that use potentially harmful language or send repetitive and unwanted replies or mentions for seven days.

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  • Twitter is cutting ties with its two-factor authentication message provider

    Twitter is cutting ties with its two-factor authentication message provider

    Twitter is ending its business relationship with the company that sends its two-factor authentication messages to its users. In a disclosure to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Twitter wrote that it is ‘transitioning’ from working with Mitto AG, a tech company based in Zug, Switzerland, and backed up its decision with some reports from the media.

    But why Twitter decided to stop working with Mitto AG? Well, according to some media reports, the reason is that a co-founder of the Swiss firm has been assisting governments in discreetly tracking and monitoring the phones of people to whom the company sends text messages. There were even cases when he obtained the call logs of some individuals.

    A spokesperson for Mitto said in a statement that Mitto AG “does not disclose information about its business partners, through any channel – official or unofficial – full stop. Generally, such agreements are mutual in nature, with both parties agreeing to protect the privacy and integrity of the other.”

    Mitto AG works with telecommunication and software companies to send text messages like sales promotions, appointment reminders, and two-factor authentication codes to people from all over the world. Mitto AG works with companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, and Alibaba. There is yet no word from these firms on whether they will also follow Twitter in terminating their business relationships with Mitto AG.

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  • Twitter is testing the option to change video playback speeds

    Twitter is testing the option to change video playback speeds

    Twitter announced that it is testing a new option for changing the playback speed of a video, which is just like the playback option on YouTube, Netflix, and other video platforms.

    In the tweet from Twitter, we see that the new playback option may appear as a gear icon on top of the currently playing video. When tapped, a menu would appear with speed options varying from 0.25x to 2x, making it exceptionally useful for people who don’t have much time to watch videos or for people who need to slow the playback for some reason. Twitter also mentioned that the available speeds might differ based on whether you are watching the video on Android or the web.

    Currently, Twitter’s playback option is only available on the Android and web versions of the platform, and only certain people have access to it. In the future, the test option will be available for iPhones as well, and at this time, there is no information on when we could expect Twitter to make the new feature available for every Twitter user.

    The playback option would be available on ‘Tweet Videos, Amplify Videos, Voice Tweets, videos in DMs, and Video Live Replays, depending on their platform.’

    I was curious to see if I was one of the users who have access to the new playback speed option, and I indeed have a gear icon when I open a video on Twitter. When I click on the gear button, however, I only find playback speed options ranging from 1x to 2x in the browser version of Twitter and 1x to 1.75x with 200% as the maximum option in the mobile app of the platform.

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  • Twitter will start testing its long-anticipated downvote feature globally

    Twitter will start testing its long-anticipated downvote feature globally

    Downvoting on Twitter has been in testing since summer last year, and the feature is now finally expanding for testing to more users. The button will be available to a select group of users around the world, as the company seems to have received positive feedback about the feature since the initial testing performed last July.

    Twitter said in a post that the company has learned a lot about the types of replies that users don’t find relevant, based on the feedback from the initial testing period. Now, the test will be expanded to the web, as well as both iOS and Android users.

    The number of downvotes a reply to a tweet gets will not be visible to the public; however, users will be able to see how many downvotes they got on a reply they published. During the first testing period, Twitter had made available several different versions of downvoting. For example, some users had both upvote and downvote buttons, while others had a downvote button next to the heart option.

    A third version of the test had thumbs up and thumbs down to indicate upvoting and downvoting. Twitter has not said whether the global tests will have the same options.

    According to Twitter, the majority of users have downvoted because a reply has been perceived as offensive, not relevant, or both. Additionally, downvoting has also become a convenient way to flag content you don’t want to see, according to the social media giant.

    But Twitter is a bit late to the party. For example, Reddit has used downvotes since it started back in 2015. Facebook, on the other hand, has tested downvotes in 2018, but the feature never made it to an official global release. On the other hand, Instagram has an option for users to hide likes if they wish to.

    Twitter Safety stated that so far, the experiment with downvoting has been a positive experience and that people who had tested it said that it improves the quality of conversations on the platform.

    It’s not only downvoting that Twitter has been recently working on. The social media platform has been busy performing tests on different features bound to improve the experience users have when visiting Twitter and socializing with others on the platform.

    The most recent feature that we reported on is reportedly dubbed Articles, and it could allow users to create blog-like posts on the platform that don’t suffer from the 280-character limit. The feature seems to be in the works and was discovered by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong.

    Another interesting feature that Twitter seems to be working on is called Tweet Take, which would allow you to use your camera to add a video or photo reaction to your retweets. When you tap on the retweet button, you would be able to activate your camera to record your reaction, which will then be displayed on the timelines of your followers with the tweet embedded in it.

    Currently, this feature is in its testing period, available to select iOS users.

    On top of that, Twitter is also testing a new composer bar, which will be located above the bottom navigation bar, and its aim is to replace the floating compose button, so that adding photos, videos, and starting a Space conversation can become easier. This feature is again up for testing on iOS (selected users).

    And last but not least, recently we reported on the fact that Twitter will be changing its “Trusted Friends” feature (still in development) into a feature dubbed “Flock”. A Flock can contain up to 150 people.

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  • Twitter’s Trusted Friends feature is now called Flock

    Twitter’s Trusted Friends feature is now called Flock

    Last year, Twitter showed an early concept of a feature called Trusted Friends. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to tweet to a close group of friends, instead of spamming all your followers.

    This pre-announced feature now has a new name – Flock. Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has dug up parts of the feature and posted examples on his Twitter page. As you can see from the screenshots, Twitter Flock allows users to add up to 150 people to this privileged group.

    It’s worth noting that people will get a notification when they have been added to somebody’s Flock but won’t get one if they’ve been removed. The idea behind this feature is quite logical and it’s been implemented in other social networks such as Instagram (Close Friends).

    Unfortunately, there’s no official information about a potential rollout date, or whether this feature will be available across all platforms from the get-go. Chances are you’d need to use the official Twitter app on your mobile to get the Flock feature (when it’s officially released).

    Twitter keeps on adding new features lately, with the social network launching Super Follows and Safety Mode last Autumn, and finally starting to roll out the Twitter Spaces record and replay feature earlier this month.

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