MADRID, 9 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –
The owner of Twitter, Elon Muskhas announced that Twitter will adopt a new navigation function in the main feed this weekin addition to other novelties that will be launched in the coming weeks such as the saved tweets button or tweets with long text.
Musk already announced last Monday the new way of browsing that will allow users to change the ‘feed’ between recommended and followed ‘tweets’, topics or trends, simply sliding to the side. Now, you have advanced through the platform that This novelty will come into force throughout the week.
In addition, as the businessman has transferred, this change in navigation is part of “a much larger revision” of the user interface. In this way, the plans that Musk had already foreseen in the month of December for ease the transition between the highlights, the latest, trends and topics followed by the user in the main timeline.
Easy swipe right/left to move between recommended vs followed tweets rolls out later this week.
First part of a much larger UI overhaul.
Bookmark button (de facto silent like) on Tweet details rolls out a week later.
Long form tweets early Feb.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 8, 2023
On the other hand, the owner of the platform has also announced other news that they will make available to users in the coming weeks. One of them refers to thesaved tweets. Currently you can save ‘tweets’ by pressing the share button and then clicking on ‘Save item’.
Nevertheless, starting next week Musk has indicated that he will implement an update to facilitate this featurealthough it has not detailed what the change they will introduce will be.
Another modification is the increase in the number of characters that can be published in a ‘tweet’. The limit is 280 characters, but as Musk has announced, in early February long-form ‘tweets’ can now be published.