For anyone who is familiar with Twitter, you’d have noticed some tweets with the ‘thread’ tag, which is kind of like a smart hack, Twitter users developed for telling lengthy stories, so it appears in a sequential order. Well, Twitter finally acknowledged the trend and decided to make it a part of the app, so Users can easily put their tweets in a thread right from the compose box.
Previously, to create a tweet thread, one had to publish each tweet in a thread one by one by replying their own tweet, and removing their handle. Now, users can write multiple tweets and Twitter will automatically thread them together and publish them in unison. This allows people express a train of thoughts (definitely longer than 280) sequentially.
The thread (tweetstorm) feature was added not long after Twitter officially increased the character limit for tweets from 140 to 280 characters. It turned out that Twitter Users may have gotten attached to the 140-character limit and hence, didn’t really appreciate the increase. Well, it’s been weeks now, and everyone seems to be at home with it.
To use the thread feature, you click on the compose button, and you’d see ‘+’button at the bottom right. So, after typing your initial tweet, you tap the ‘+’ button to add another tweet below the first one and so on. You can recognize a thread by the ‘Show this thread’ tag that differentiates a thread from normal tweets.
Twitter undoubtedly has evolved from just being a microblogging site to becoming one of the most powerful tools in the media sphere. The platform entertains high-profile users, like the President of the United States and various politicians, even in Nigeria. Most importantly, the platform gives the people a voice, a very loud voice, and an opinion in matters of society, and they intend to keep making it easier for people to openly express themselves to the world.
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This article was first published on 17th January 2018
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