Five Features Coming Soon On Twitter

It’s time to have a sneak peek into the next set of new feature releases by Twitter. Of course, there are an array of features in different stages of development, and in this blog, we are bringing you the details of the exciting features in development and what you can look forward to in them.

Twitter Circles Is Coming Soon

Twitter Circles is designed in a way to give you more control over your Twitter experience. The feature has a few similarities to other recent launches from Twitter like Twitter Communities etc. This new feature is expected to be more popular than the former similar features.

So, what exactly is a Twitter Circle? You can add a maximum of 150 members to your Twitter Circle and share tweets specifically with them. You can also control who interacts with your tweet and can limit sharing your tweet without your permission. Unlike Twitter Communities where you can create many different communities of people with specific interests, you can only create one Twitter circle for you.

Currently, this feature is rolled out to a limited number of users and there will be updates on the features based on the review of the pilot users. 

Mix Media in Your Tweets

Twitter has not officially issued any statements about the new ‘Mixed Media’ feature yet. But a developer Dylan Roussel spotted the new feature and a lot others have unofficially confirmed about this too.

Currently, Twitter allows you to have up to four images in a single tweet. But you cannot have a photo and a video in a single tweet. The Mix Media feature will allow you to share a tweet with both images and videos together. Since we have no official updates on this new feature, we are not yet sure of the limitations on the media.

The New Twitter Articles Feature

‘Twitter Articles’ feature is the answer to the platform’s long-pending inability to allow long forms. There is no option yet on Twitter where you can share larger content.

Twitter users resort to using threads to overcome this deficit on Twitter. In fact, Twitter threads are quite famous and there are many dedicated handles where the tweet threads are combined and shared in a third-party link.

Twitter has been trying to bring in a feature to serve this feature since 2016. Finally, we may see the ‘Twitter Articles’ feature helping them in relieving from a long-standing headache.

This new feature has the capability to make Twitter famous for blogs. The early news is that the feature will be incorporated into ‘Twitter Blue’ and only paid users will be able to write ‘Twitter Articles’. At the moment, it is only a speculation and we can wait for what Twitter has to say about ‘Twitter Articles’.

Introduction Of Twitter Awards

We will soon be able to provide and receive awards from fellow Twitter users. Twitter has already introduced a cluster of features involving Superfollows, Twitter Blue, etc., to enable monetizing content and Twitter awards will be a new entrant in that list.

‘Twitter Awards’ button will be present in the profile of users who enables the option and any user who visits/ consumes his content can contribute to the content creator. 

Other social media platforms have already introduced similar features and most of them have been hits. In the era of content creation, platforms that make life easy for creators can thrive and shine. Hence this and a lot of other features from Twitter concentrate on winning the content creators and their audience.

Adding Image Descriptions

You will soon be able to add a description to the images you share on Twitter. This feature is launched as an inclusive measure to help people with visual disabilities to use Twitter. 

Once this feature is rolled out, you will see an option called ‘ALT’ (stands for ‘Alternative Text’) near the image you are composing to tweet. You can click on the button and can add a description to the image you share. Twitter allows you to use as many as a thousand words to describe the image.

When you add multiple images, you can add dedicated alternative texts to each image. This feature has been tested out in the last few weeks and final bug fixes were completed by Twitter recently.

We can soon expect this feature to be rolled out to everyone on Twitter.

Conclusion

The above mentioned are some of the major changes getting ready to be launched for all Twitter audiences. There are also many recent feature releases and expected features that we have discussed in our previous blogs.

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