Twitter has begun rolling out a Bookmark counts alongside the variety of Retweets, Quotes, and Likes displayed on every tweet. The depend will show the variety of customers who’ve bookmarked a selected tweet. However, the function is barely seen to customers utilizing Twitter for iOS units. However, in contrast to the counts shows for Retweets, Quotes, and Likes, clicking on the Bookmark counts won’t reveal the names of lively person 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 depend show on tweets displayed on iOS units by means of a tweet on its official Twitter Support account. In a comply with 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 non-public perform. This signifies that the Bookmark counts displayed on tweets will solely show the variety of bookmarks a tweet has acquired and never the record of person accounts who’ve bookmarked it.
Twitter, in a assist web 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 every one customers viewing a tweet on an iOS gadget will be capable of see the Bookmark counts, no matter whether or not the person is an writer or a reader of the tweet.
Since 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 introduced 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 person.
Twitter additionally 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 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 person follows in chronological order. However, the function was rolled again from Twitter’s net interface.
