The head of the company said Twitter is planning major changes to the interface. In addition, the long-promised increase in the character limit in tweets should be expected in the near future.

two tapes

The first thing Musk mentioned in his announcement – the ability to quickly switch between your subscriptions with algorithmic recommendation flows. It will be a scroll, so it will probably look like two tabs at the top of the page. If that’s the case, the social network loses its ability to pin Lists from above.

Such changes seem somewhat controversial, given that for years many users and researchers have been criticizing the algorithms of social networks, especially on Facebook, and complaining about the lack of relevant and important posts in the feed, the strange selection of content and possible manipulation. .

This is the first part of a much larger UI change.
said Musk.

Such a novelty should appear within a week. Now you have to press the special star-shaped button in the upper right corner to change the tape type.

Bookmarks

It will also appear in a week new bookmark buttonso users can save posts easily.

What exactly it will look like is still unclear. Probably, we are talking about another icon with likes, retweets and comments in the same block, but after adding a view counter there is no place there (by the way, Musk promised that it can be closed soon – it’s not a viewer novelty, I like it).

Now you need to press the “Share” button to bookmark a tweet.

long tweets

Finally, another previously promised innovation – long tweets. Musk first announced this change in mid-December 2022. Then he emphasized that the number of characters in the broadcasts would increase from 280 to 4,000.

Limiting the number of characters in tweets is considered an important feature of Twitter. This gave the social network a special style of text messages and spawned branches or threads.