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Those who use Twitter, and who desperately want an edit button, might have that wish granted. While the addition of an edit button will likely bring some people joy, I can see ways where it can be manipulated to cause chaos. The @TwitterComms account tweeted: “now that everyone is asking… yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last
Twitter is exploring a new way to send DMs on iOS, and it involves letting users slide into your inbox through a link on your tweets, bypassing the DM button on your profile, The Verge reported. According to The Verge, Twitter says this will make it easier to “start a conversation” from your timeline. I think it is obvious how
Twitter first announced their interest in giving people a downvote button in July of 2021. At the time, it was a test for research purposes. Twitter clarified “this is not a dislike button”, and pointed out that your downvotes will only be visible to you. On February 3, 2022, @TwitterSupport tweeted: “We learned a lot about the types of replies
Twitter has added video captions. It posted a tweet on December 14, 2021, that said: “ Where are video captions when you need them? They’re here now automatically on videos uploaded starting today.” The same tweet explains that for Android and iOS, auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos; keep them on when unmuted via your device’s accessibility settings. Those
Twitter has acquired Quill, a company that TechCrunch described as “a business-focused messaging service meant to compete against the likes of Slack and keep people, well, more focused”. Quill put a blog post on their website titled: “Twitter + Quill”. We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication. We believe the tools we use to
Twitter posted information on their blog titled: “Expanding our private information policy to include media”, on November 30, 2021. This policy was an update to the previous version, in which publishing other people’s private information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs was already not allowed on Twitter. How did this policy work out? Not very well at all. The
Sometimes, Twitter auto-refreshes your feed while you are in the middle of reading a tweet. As you might expect, some people find this to be annoying. Twitter is aware of this problem and intends to do something to fix it. In a short thread of tweets, @TwitterSupport tweeted the following: “Let’s talk about Tweets disappearing from view mid-read when the