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, in contrast to 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 record.
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 means of a tweet on its official Twitter Help account. In a observe up thread, Twitter additionally added that the Bookmark counts function, which permits customers to save lots of tweets to be re-engaged with and be accessed at any time, will stay a personal perform. Because of this the Bookmark counts displayed on tweets will solely show the variety of bookmarks a tweet has acquired and never the record 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 present restricted to tweets considered 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 system will have the ability to see the Bookmark counts, no matter whether or not the consumer is an creator or a reader of the tweet.
For the reason that 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 12 months. Musk had additionally beforehand dubbed the Bookmark button to be a ‘de facto silent like’, reiterating that Bookmarks will stay personal, the place different customers won’t be able to see which tweets have been bookmarked by a consumer.
Twitter additionally not too long ago 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 residence web page was divided into two tabs: For You, and Following. The For You tab displayed tweets advisable 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.
