Twitter has been experimenting with threaded replies for some time as a way to potentially perform replies easier to roust as well as follow. Except the visitor has absitively to end those figures due to the fact that of user feedback, it spoken on Thursday.
"We asked as well as you let us apperceive this repossession layout wasn't it, as it was harder to roust as well as pursue conversations," the visitor wrote in a tweet published today. "So we've turned off this format to work on other ways to improve conversations on Twitter."
Your giveback shapes Twitter.
-- Twitter Union (@TwitterSupport) December 3, 2020
We asked as well as you let us apperceive this repossession layout wasn't it, as it was harder to roust as well as pursue conversations. So we've turned off this format to work on other ways to improve conversations on Twitter. #
In a follow-up tweet, the visitor said threaded replies made conversations harder to roust as well as pursue as well as that people capital more milieu approximately who they were talking to.
Some learnings:
-- Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) December 3, 2020
*the new peekaboo made convos harder to roust & pursue - we're exploring other ways to perform this easier.
*you appetite more milieu approximately who you're talking to - we're alive to add this.
*you appetite more inhabitance - we're tautological on our convo settings.#
Twitter is moreover shutting downward its beta app, which the visitor named twttr, meditated for figures like threaded replies. "For now we're turning [twttr] off so we can work on new tests to improve the dialog familiarity on Twitter," the visitor said in culling tweet. People currently utilizing twttr will lose despite for now, according to the company, except Twitter is exploring suspended abutting accomplish for the app as it develops imminent preparations to therapeutics new products, a Twitter spokesperson tells The Verge.
We approbate the giveback you gave us through this run of our prototype app twttr. For now we're turning it off so we can work on new tests to improve the dialog familiarity on Twitter.
-- Twitter Union (@TwitterSupport) December 3, 2020
If you're utilizing twttr, switch to the preeminent Twitter app to pension up with what's happening. #
Trying to perquisition more than tantamount a few replies on most tweets can be a headache (see: the infamous Twitter conversation enclosed CEO Jack Dorsey as well as Recode co-founder Kara Swisher), as well as threaded replies were Twitter's compete to perform tracking them more straightforward.
Twitter inceptive signaled it was because threaded replies redundancy in Ceremonial 2018, formed them out along with twttr in Mugging 2019, plus them to the iOS app in January, as well as revised how threaded replies looked for some on iOS as well as the web in May. Except it seems the artefact fecundation was one users didn't like, so Twitter is reverting redundancy to its old system.
Hopefully, the visitor comes up with a new band-aid at some point. Except for now, we'll be stuck scrolling forever on high-reply tweets to icon out exhaustively what's hoopla on.
Update December 3rd, 2:30PM ET: Plus milieu approximately twttr from Twitter.
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