The Twitter essay, the tweetstorm, the thread, whatever you want to call it, it’s just become a core feature for the social media platform.
The Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) character limit hasn’t deterred people in the past from threading together their own tweets with its replies in order to make a conversation. It allows for longer arguments and longer statements.
Twitter is now encouraging this, enabling self-reply chains and added it as a feature to the mainstream platform. When composing a Tweet, all you have to do is click on the plus sign that’s been added to the bottom right of the Tweet frame, and a second frame (with the same 280 character limit) will pop up. Whole threads can now be composed before releasing them out into the world simultaneously with the click of a “Tweet all”.
It works for replies too. In the reply frame, by hitting “Add another tweet” you can add onto the already-created tweetstorm, or initiate a thread by adding onto a solo Tweet.
Threads will also now be obvious in a Twitter feed, with the “show thread” option connected to any and all threads on your feed.
While it isn’t perfect, the new Twitter thread feature is here, and it’s here to stay.
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