A brand new Standing characteristic has began showing for some Twitter customers that lets them assign one in every of a number of pre-written labels to their tweets. A spokesperson for the corporate confirmed the restricted take a look at in an announcement given to DailyTech, whereas Twitter customers have been sharing screenshots of the characteristic in motion.
“For a restricted time, we’re testing a characteristic that permits you to add a standing matter from a predetermined checklist to your Tweets to offer extra context to your followers,” the Twitter spokesperson stated. “So whether or not you might be about to drop a scorching Tweet thread, share your bathe ideas, or have a foul case of the Mondays, your Tweets can higher convey what you might be as much as.”
I do not understand how twitter managed to launch a extra embarrassing and unusable characteristic than cotweets in the identical month however right here it’s. these are all of the statuses you need to use. no customized statuses allowed pic.twitter.com/2BPwku1qi1
— Takes Of Vesperia (@coolranchzaku) July 27, 2022
From the screenshots of the characteristic, it appears as if most of the statuses are designed to exchange the titles and emoji that Twitter customers usually put firstly of their tweets and Twitter threads. There’s an “A thread” standing that features the Spool of Thread emoji, “Spoiler alert” with a Warning Signal emoji, or “AMA” with a microphone. In principle, with the ability to put this data in a Standing ought to save customers worthwhile characters of their tweets.
The in-development characteristic was beforehand found in Twitter’s code by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. On the time Statuses may very well be posted to both a tweet, or an general profile, however this newest take a look at solely seems to let customers connect them to particular tweets. You’ll be able to click on a standing to find different tweets containing those self same phrases.
If the characteristic reminds you of the previous LiveJournal or AIM statuses of previous then we wouldn’t blame you. However extra fascinating is the roots the characteristic has in Twitter’s personal historical past. In a blog post from over a decade ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone highlighted how the platform was initially conceived as a “cellular standing replace service” designed to let folks share what they have been as much as at any cut-off date. However, as of 2009, Stone stated Twitter had outgrown this authentic function, and was serving as extra of a basic function data community. The brand new Standing characteristic doesn’t appear to be it’s going to reverse that development, nevertheless it revives a little bit of Twitter’s previous function.
There’s no phrase on if, and even when, the Standing characteristic may get a wider rollout. It’s a part of a rising checklist of in-development options on the social media community, which additionally embrace mixed-media tweets that would allow you to add each photographs and video to a single publish, a downvote button, and the choice to present awards to tweets.