If just yesterday, when I was talking about third-party sources, I mentioned that Twitter has been testing as many new features for a long time as seems to have passed through the heads of its engineers, today we find one more proof of this. another new feature, currently in testing modeand therefore it can end up being integrated into the social network or, as they themselves suggest, it can also disappear completely after the test.

In this case, yes, this is not the first report we have of this. Remember when we told you a few months ago that Twitter might be working on a co-authoring feature? Well, now the social network itself has confirmed it in your Help Centerin which, in addition to telling us that these shared publications with signatures are called CoTweets, he reveals many aspects of how they work and informs us that this feature is already available in trial mode for some users.

Regarding the “signature” of each CoTweet, Twitter states that “CoTweet is a co-authored tweet that is sent simultaneously to the authors’ profiles and their followers’ timelines» and when it comes to identifying the message as such, we can read “you’ll know coTweet when you see the profile pictures and usernames of the two authors in the header”. So it seems that there will be no main and secondary author, but 50% will always be distributed to the company.

To create a CoTweet, we will need to send an invite to the account we want to do this with (or receive it from him, of course), something that can only be done with accounts that already follow us. This of course makes sense, because otherwise it could become a very effective platform for spamming and also trying to contact accounts that have disabled direct messages for strangers.

Before I said that there is a shared CoTweet signature for other users. However, an There are differences when it comes to driving it between the account that sent the invitation and the account that accepted it. For example, if the first wants to delete a CoTweet, they can delete it as if it were a normal message. However, the recipient of the invitation will not be able to take such an action, they will only be able to remove their “presence” from the shared tweet, so that it will be exclusively signed by another user.