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From bullying to harassment, Twitter isn’t constantly the most friendly location to hang out online.
Now the social networks business is explore methods to make it simpler to begin more favorable discussions. One of the functions that business is checking consists of discussion beginners with concerns such as “Who is the most inspirational person in your life and why?” or “Did anyone understand the last episode of #Westworld?”
“Starting a conversation or joining a conversation can be hard. I don’t always know what I want to say, but I want to say something,”Sara Haider, Twitter’s director of item management, informed Fast Company at an occasion the media outlet kept in New York today.
Haider tweeted in August that the business was checking functions to make the website more conversational.
hiTwitter we have actually been having fun with some rough functions to make it feel more conversational here. existence and reply threading. still early and repeating on these concepts. ideas? pic.twitter.com/3U3NvpHWPy
— sara haider (@pandemona) August 31, 2018
Some of the modifications Twitter has actually been explore are more subtle. The business is taking a look at including a status indication so users can see whether somebody is active online or what they’re doing. It’s screening color-coded discussions so users see tweets from individuals they follow in a various color, making it simpler to follow more popular discussions. And it’s thinking about a reply field listed below every tweet.
“As you scroll through your feed, you would see a new field with the word ” reply” next to the heart and retweet button. One reason Twitter is exploring the idea is that many new users still don’t understand that they can reply to tweets by tapping the conversation bubble in every tweet,” according to The Verge, which saw early variations of the brand-new functions.
CNET connected to a Twitter representative for more information.
Twitter, which has 335 million users, reports its 3rd quarter incomes on Thursday.
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