Twitter has started testing A new feature called CoTweet This allows co-authoring of tweets between social network users, similar to Instagram Collabs.

Reverse engineering expert Alessandro Paluzzi noticed this new feature late last year. The function was located in the platform code and They collaborated for a publication.

Paluzzi noted that Twitter’s co-authoring functionality looks something like this: Instagram Collaborations this allows you to share the content of the feed and the reels with another user. So the two can spread the same post on their own profile.

Now Twitter has started testing CoTweet on selected accounts from: Canada, Korea, and the United States for a limited time, according to a statement posted on the website.

Twitter refers to tweet co-authoring as “an option that helps the authors of a post.” unlock opportunities attracting new audiences and enhancing their associations.”

How does it work?

To access this feature, one of the users must create and send the CoTweet with the message. an invitation to your co-author. This must be one of your followers or have a public account.

If an invitation is received to appear on a CoTweet, the co-author can accept or decline it. If you decide to accept, this shared tweet Posts from both accounts simultaneous.

These CoTweets will also appear on your followers’ timelines. To understand who is CoTweet, both profile photos and names top of the article.

They stated on Twitter that once published, these tweets cannot be edited. Instead, it can be retweeted, quoted, and other posts like polls, GIFs, photos, videos, and links.

On the other hand, the company noted that only the original author of CoTweet can pin the tweet to their profile. Moreover, just the first tweet in a thread one of these posts and neither of the two authors can promote them.

Finally, Twitter, at the end of this test experiment in selected countries, You can disable the function. In this way, any CoTweet can be removed from the social network.