Twitter has begun rolling out a Bookmark counts alongside the variety of Retweets, Quotes, and Likes displayed on every tweet. The rely will show the variety of customers who’ve bookmarked a selected tweet. Nevertheless, the function is simply seen to customers utilizing Twitter for iOS units. Nevertheless, not like the counts shows for Retweets, Quotes, and Likes, clicking on the Bookmark counts won’t reveal the names of lively consumer accounts who’ve added the tweet to their bookmarks checklist.
The Elon Musk-owned social media platform made the announcement concerning the introduction of this new rely show on tweets displayed on iOS units by a tweet on its official Twitter Help account. In a comply with up thread, Twitter additionally added that the Bookmark counts function, which permits customers to avoid wasting tweets to be re-engaged with and be accessed at any time, will stay a personal operate. Because of this the Bookmark counts displayed on tweets will solely show the variety of bookmarks a tweet has acquired and never the checklist of consumer accounts who’ve bookmarked it.
Twitter, in a support page for the newly launched Bookmark counts, talked about that though the function is at the moment restricted to tweets seen on iOS units, the corporate plans to increase this to different platforms.
The social media firm additionally confirmed that each one customers viewing a tweet on an iOS machine will be capable to see the Bookmark counts, no matter whether or not the consumer is an writer or a reader of the tweet.
Because the extremely publicised acquisition of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter has been seen introducing, testing, and even dropping a plethora of latest options, together with the bookmark function, which was launched early January this yr. Musk had additionally beforehand dubbed the Bookmark button to be a ‘de facto silent like’, reiterating that Bookmarks will stay non-public, the place different customers won’t be able to see which tweets have been bookmarked by a consumer.
Twitter additionally just lately tweaked its feed algorithm on iOS and Android units to show the final used tab when customers shut and re-open the app on their smartphones. In January, Twitter app house web page was divided into two tabs: For You, and Following. The For You tab displayed tweets beneficial by the corporate’s algorithms, whereas the Following tab displayed tweets from accounts the consumer follows in chronological order. Nevertheless, the function was rolled again from Twitter’s internet interface.
