chirrup could bet very dissimilar very soon .
Last calendar week we find out thatTwitter is ponder a redesign , and other screenshots tease apart a spirit that was amazingly Facebook - esque . Now we have a good sense of what those changes could actually seem like .
TechCrunchgot a glimpse at some of the features that Twitter is float in a new beta mental testing political program . Launching in the next few weeks , a couple thousand trial users will get a separate app where they can try out new lineament and discuss their experience with other select users . chirrup plan to monitor how these hoi polloi apply the experimental features to figure out what people wish and hate . It ’s not unmortgaged how Twitter plans to select its test users .
allot to TechCrunch , these examination user will be able-bodied to twitch in public about their experience with the new features . This room , Twitter can presumably estimate public reaction to potentially controversial change before update the main app .
Twitter ’s Cartesian product direction theater director Sara Haider tell TechCrunch that with this coming to beta testing , these early substance abuser could have a significant influence on the features that Twitter may wind up changing .
One feature that TechCrunch noted , which is already stirringsomestrongopinions , is color - coded responses inside threads . Twitter suppose these colors are meant to serve user easily distinguish the difference between the original bill poster , people the users follow , and people they do n’t follow .
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— TechCrunch ( @TechCrunch)January 14 , 2019
This could help users navigate conversation so they can focalize on the citizenry they recognize and the conversation instigator . TechCrunch report that the color scheme shown in their early - peak photos will be “ dial down ” when or if the feature launches , however some percipient have already express that it looks like a “ colorful muddle . ”
Another change that Twitter is playing with is algorithmically - sorted responses . Twitter could , for example , start showing replies from strangers lower down in conversation . chirrup could also tweak the way those replies take care so they ’re easier to identify .
Twitter is also testing hide the favorite - heart icon , retweet icons , and reply ikon , reportedly in an endeavour to streamline the appearance of replies . These icons would only come along once you have tapped on a post . So when a exploiter is cruise through tweets , they do n’t see all the mare’s nest . If they want to employ , they can tap the tweet and then have the selection to like , retweet , or reply .
Twitter is reportedly also consider position update options , so users could post where they are , or share a more worldwide position update like the one Facebook used to further . And Twitter reportedly may prove conversation starters — pinned tweets entail to get masses twitch about a certain idea or issue .
When Haider first tease these change in atweetback in August , she read the intention was “ to make it feel more colloquial here . ” But noticeably abstracted from these potential features picture in the TechCrunch clause is any indication of how the society plan to enable people to best protect themselves from molestation and hate speech communication in these conversations . A Twitter spokesperson recount Gizmodo that their efforts to make Twitter more conversational are being evolve alongside their on-going efforts to prevent revilement and junk e-mail . “ We are attached to holding ourselves publicly accountable towards advancement in this regard , ” the spokesperson said , advert to build up “ a good for you service . ”
So hopefully we ’ll be seeing fewer humiliating stake from neo - Nazis , and other substantial alteration that assay to address the most toxic bile on Twitter , or else of just come up these same tweets at the bottom of conversations and highlight in a unlike colour .
[ TechCrunch ]
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