Elon Musk Announces Tweaks In Twitter Interface, Here’s What He Said

Elon Musk Announces Tweaks In Twitter Interface, Here’s What He Said

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Twitter is gearing up for major changes to the interface and could launch a long-form text feature as early as February, Billionaire Elon Musk announced today.

In a tweet posted this morning, Elon Musk listed a number of changes to Twitter’s user interface that would be introduced very soon.

He said, “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,” 

Billionaire Elon Musk announced in November that Twitter would soon allow users to post long-form text in their tweets, which now has a character limit of 280.

The changes announced today will be the latest in a series of changes since Elon took over the microblogging site in a $44 billion deal.

Enabling long-form text in Tweets has been a highly contentious issue, with many demanding the feature and others warning that the platform would cease to be unique if long posts were allowed.

Those opposing the move also argue that users can currently post in detail using the Threads option and there is no need to remove the cap on characters.

Twitter is also rolling out a much-talked-about feature that will help users find specific tweets and profiles by filtering them based on date, user, retweet count, hashtags, and more, according to reports earlier this week.

On Thursday, Matt Navarra said “Twitter’s advanced search filters for smartphone and iOS users are coming soon,”

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Information Source: NDTV

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