One day you go to Twitter (I assume you know by now that Elon Musk has finally resumed shopping, right?), you start looking at the tweets that the social network has selected and ordered for your Timeline and suddenly you come across a message that leaves you speechless, a publication that, because of what you like or what upsets you, you decide what you should share with your followers. If it is for the good, on its own (that is, without adding any annotation) or with some short reflection. For worse, possibly a series of insults, an analysis of why you think they’re wrong, or simply your opinion on the matter.
Everything normal until now, but here the story branches into two possible actions. The first, the most common, is to press the button to share the tweet, which for some time has offered us to retweet without further ado, or to share it by adding whatever we want (text, images, etc.), either to complement it or to refute it. This is the method designed by Twitter for users to share messages, and a method that many use regularly.
However, since Twitter had the retweet feature, users have used a different method of sharing messages from other users: take a screenshot with them and in due time upload it to the service to add images to tweets (when they couldn’t embed images) and later, when possible, embed them directly into messages. And to this day, this method is still quite common.
However, the social network prefers to share tweets using the tools it has provided for this purpose, and as Jane Manchun Wong, the most prolific and successful of the social network’s analysts, stated, Twitter is testing a new feature that prompts you to retweet or copy a link when it detects you’ve taken a screenshot instead of using the screenshot you just took.
It makes perfect sense that Twitter prefers these methods, as it facilitates interaction with the original message, stimulates navigation between messages and profiles, and generally it is easier for users to spend more time on the social network, the big goal of these services. However, this is nothing more than a recommendation, and it seems unlikely that Twitter will start imposing restrictions on screenshots, which are also especially useful if you suspect that the message you want to share may be deleted, which is quite common in this social network.
