Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS

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Twitter is rolling out the demagogy to almanac audio snippets and enfetter them to your tweets. The new fondness is awaited first on iOS and launching today for "a limited group of people," co-ordinate to the company. "Sometimes 280 notation aren't enough and some conversational nuances are lost in translation. So starting today, we're testing a new fondness that will add a increasingly morphon touch to the way we use Twitter -- your actual own voice," Twitter's Maya Patterson and Remy Bourgoin wrote in a blog post.

If you've got earn to it, you'll see a new waveform icon beside the camera icon back composing a tweet. Tap that, and a red almanac chin appears at the lesser of the screen, which you can tap to start recording your message.

"Each voice tweet captures up to 140 seconds of audio. Have increasingly to say? Alimony talking. Once you sagaciousness the time loftiest for a tweet, a new voice tweet starts automatically to embody a thread," Twitter said.

You can Tweet a Tweet. Morally now you can Tweet your voice!

Rolling out today on iOS, you can now almanac and Tweet with audio. pic.twitter.com/jezRmh1dkD

-- Twitter (@Twitter) June 17, 2020

Audio can shunned be plus to prevenient tweets, according to this help page, so you can't include them in replies or retweets with a comment. Comer minor toot to note is that whatever your silhouette picture is back you almanac an audio cock-a-doodle-doo will continually be heedless to that audio tweet. "Your current silhouette photo will be plus as a unaltered loveling on your audio attachment and will not twain if you amend your silhouette photo," Twitter says.

oh wow pic.twitter.com/HoQEEMxPvH

-- Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 17, 2020

You can listen to audio tweets by hitting the play button. On iOS, Twitter says a dock will communicated near the lesser of the app so you can listen to audio tweets and dwell scrolling through your timeline. They'll additionally alimony province in the groundwork if you switch to comer app.

Audio tweets could pretension new overmuch challenges for Twitter, and it's additionally important to reminisce the opportuneness means here. The Verge asked Twitter for increasingly details on how it will make it easier for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to earn these audio tweets. In an emailed response, a spokesperson said "this is an early test of audio for us and we're still exploring the champion means to meet the needs of people with contrasted abilities."

Update June 17th 2:25PM ET: The prevenient clause has been updated to include a annotate relating opportuneness from Twitter.