It is well known that Twitter is constantly testing new features. Many of them may never know because they are being phased out at a very early stage. Others are announced or released by social media at the right time, either by small sections of users, as part of their testing programs, or by the entire community at the time. However, sometimes we are aware of these tests due to the curiosity of some users who methodically they check the “insides” of applications when searching for tested functions and not yet documented.

The latest example of this can be found in the Twitter Collaboration, a feature discovered by Alessandro Paluzzi a few months ago and repeated by MSPowerUser, which increases the chance that messages on Twitter are signed by more than one person. And according to Paluzzi’s investigation, Twitter has been actively working on this feature to the extent that the latest update is from yesterday.

Shared Posts feature It has been around for a long time in other services such as InstagramAnd it’s definitely positive for content creators who want to implement collaboration of any kind and have the signature of both people. In other services, such as YouTube, two different but related videos are usually created for this collaboration, to affect both authors, one for one channel and the other for the other.

Obviously, co-authoring messages on Twitter doesn’t make sense in individual messages, much less in the classic and immortal “I had a chicken for dinner yesterday,” but it has find a much more natural storage in threadsone of the great values ​​of Twitter and for many the only reason to remain active users of this social network.

So far, the threads are also individual, although the author can insert one of the tweets that one or more people have collaborated on it and list them. However, the possibility that these publications may be signed by more than one author may be a major stimulus support the creation of shared threadswhich may be much more important thanks to such collective cooperation.

And, of course, it’s perfectly logical to think that’s what motivates Twitter to test this feature. Collaboration is an extremely successful format on other platformsand making available to its users a feature that allows for shared content signing can be an incentive for this type of collaboration to take place more regularly.