Twitter may be getting multimedia and pronoun features in a future update

Date:
Fri, 06 May 2022 16:57:40 +0000

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Twitter is reportedly planning to add pronouns to profiles, alongside other new features that may be arriving soon.

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With Elon Musks takeover of the company looming in the distance, Twitter apparently isnt slowing down when it comes to updates, as the company is reportedly working on a new way to "award" tweets, as well as new options for multimedia tweets and new features to easily display status and pronouns on your profile.

Discovered by 9to5Google contributor Dylan Roussel , Twitters in-progress status feature appears to center around discovery for profiles and tweets, rather than just showing off what youre doing, as upon tapping on a profiles status, users are prompted with buttons to either discover or join the displayed status.

Alongside Twitters recently announced Circles feature that allows you to create tight-knit groups of up to 150 friends, this new status feature should allow users to better find and get to know one another in order to build communities of the often quite combative social media app.

In the pursuit of having the apps users better respect and get along with one another, Twitter is also planning to implement a new pronouns page that will give that inclusivity boosting information a proper home, rather than just having it be an optional extra in users bios. Uh oh! @Twitter is working on giving users the ability to give awards to tweets with a button between "Like/React" & "Share" !It's unclear how exactly it will work, but tweets
will show the total number of awards given to it. pic.twitter.com/MD5axNi7hY May 4, 2022 See more

As well as two social-focused features being in development, Twitter is also hoping to keep users from potentially ditching the platform by finally allowing for multimedia tweets, saving users from the plight of picking between images or a video when attaching media to a tweet.

In Roussels report, Twitter is shown to also be working on a major new addition to the app that will allow users to give awards to tweets they particularly enjoy. As the most barebones of the discovered features, it is currently unclear as to how the awards will work, if they will have monetary value, if they will be exclusive to Twitter Blue , or when the feature will
be released. Analysis: Cultivating or culling communities?

As Elon Musks takeover of Twitter looks more inevitable as the deal closes, many users have voiced their concerns about just how much good unabashed free speech will do for the apps already hostile environment.

Its unclear as to whether these new features have been in the pipeline for some time, or if theyve been fast-tracked ahead of future ownerElon Musks arrival.

Hopefully, theyll give users some common ground to unite and be friendly to one another, rather than giving some users more ammunition to attack one anothers beliefs, as Twitter certainly doesnt need more of that. Twitters new edit button won't let you hide your mistakes easily

Via: 9to5Google



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