Elon Musk's Twitter is rolling out a number of new features, including long-format tweets and formatting details — here's the complete list.
What Happened: Musk took to Twitter to announce that the microblogging site will launch the much-awaited long-format tweets by early February. These tweets will take the same Timeline screen space as standard tweets, but users can click on them to read more.
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Musk added that as part of a larger user Interface, or UI, overhaul, users will soon be able to swipe to move between recommended and followed tweets.
In addition to the aforementioned features, Twitter is taking measures to roll out the Bookmark button, which will be de facto silent like on Tweet details.
Easy swipe right/left to move between recommended vs followed tweets rolls out later this week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 8, 2023
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.
In another tweet, Musk announced that Twitter will start enabling users to format their tweets with options like bold, underline and font size before the end of this quarter — a feature users have been asking for ages.
We will also be adding simple formatting features like bold, underline & font size later this quarter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2023
The goal is to allow people to publish long-form natively on Twitter, rather than forcing them to use another website.
Twitter will continue to recommend brevity in tweets.
Earlier this month, social media commentator Matt Navarra shared an update about a much-need Twitter feature — advanced search filters — which will soon be available on iPhone courtesy of Musk's frenemy George Hotz.
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