How to see new tweets first on ios and android

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For the longest time, Twitter has been doing that thing where it shows “popular” tweets instead of the newest stuff. The thing is, that’s a terrible way to experience Twitter. But now you can (finally) arrange tweets chronologically.

This is a relatively new feature on both iOS and Android, but at this point, it should be available to everyone. To keep things simple, the process is identical on both platforms. Here’s the skinny.

With your Twitter open on your timeline, take a look in the upper-right corner. There should be a little star icon there. Tap that thing!

A new menu will open, giving you the option to “See latest Tweets instead.” Tap that to magically, automatically, and some other “cally” get your Tweets in chronological order. The tastiest way to consume Twitter.

If you get sick of seeing things in a way that makes sense, you’re also free to go back to the Twitter-curated method. Just tap the little star icon again, the choose the somewhat-snarkily named “Go back Home” option.

And just like that, your tweets are back in an order that makes little-to-no sense.

Home serves Tweets from accounts and Topics you follow as well as recommended Tweets. You’ll also see features that help you manage your Home timeline.

• Your Home timeline displays a stream of Tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter. You may see suggested content powered by a variety of signals. You can reply, Retweet, or like a Tweet from within Home.
• You can choose between viewing top Tweets in Home first, or the latest Tweets first in your timeline (available on Twitter for iOS and Android, and twitter.com). Home, or top Tweets, are ones you are likely to care about most, and we choose them based on accounts you interact with frequently, Tweets you engage with, and much more. You can find instructions on how to toggle between the two timeline views below.
• You may see Tweets for Topics you follow, Tweets for Topic suggestions, and a summary of the most interesting Tweets you might not have seen, labeled as In case you missed it.
• You may also see content such as promoted Tweets or Retweets in your timeline.

• Clicking or tapping anywhere on a Tweet in your timeline will take you to the Tweet detail page, so you can see photos, videos, and other information related to that Tweet.
• Use the Bookmarks feature to bookmark Tweets you’d like to refer to later. From a Tweet, tap or click on the share icon (

on iOS and web,В

on Android) and select Add Tweet to Bookmarks. To view your saved Tweets, tap or click onВ Bookmarks from your profile icon menu or the left nav. To remove a saved bookmark, tap the share icon from the Tweet within your bookmark timeline and select Remove Tweet from bookmarks. Additionally, you can tap the more iconВ

at the top of your bookmark timeline to remove all of your bookmarks at once.
You may see events featured at the top of your timeline labeled as Happening now. When available, we’ll show you events and topics we think you might be interested in when you open your Twitter for iOS or Android app. Tap theВ

icon to view why we think you’ll be interested in the event, or to hide the event from your timeline. Tap the photo to view conversation surrounding the event.

What’s in your Home timeline

When you log in to Twitter, you’ll land on your Home timeline.

• Your Home timeline displays a stream of Tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter. You may see suggested content powered by a variety of signals. You can reply, Retweet, or like a Tweet from within the timeline.
• You can choose between viewing the top Tweets first or the latest Tweets first in your timeline (Twitter for iOS and Android only). Top Tweets are ones you are likely to care about most, and we choose them based on accounts you interact with most, Tweets you engage with, and much more. You can find instructions on how to toggle between the two timeline views below.
• You may see a summary of the most interesting Tweets you might not have seen, labeled as In case you missed it.
• You may also see content such as promoted Tweets or Retweets in your timeline.
• Additionally, when we identify a Tweet, an account to follow, or other content that’s popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline. This means you will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don’t follow. We select each Tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to show you content on your Home timeline that you’re most interested in and contributes to the conversation in a meaningful way, such as content that is relevant, credible, and safe.
• Clicking or tapping anywhere on a Tweet in your timeline expands the Tweet, so you can see photos, videos, and other information related to that Tweet.
• Use the Bookmarks feature from your Twitter for iOS or Android app and mobile.twitter.com to bookmark Tweets you’d like to refer to later. From a Tweet, tap the share icon (

on Android) and select Add Tweet to Bookmarks. To view your saved Tweets, tap Bookmarks from your profile icon menu. To remove a saved bookmark, tap the share icon from the Tweet within your bookmark timeline and select Remove Tweet from bookmarks. Additionally, you can tap the more icon

at the top of your bookmark timeline to remove all of your bookmarks at once.
You may see events featured at the top of your timeline labeled as Happening now. When available, we’ll show you events and topics we think you might be interested in when you open your Twitter for iOS or Android app. Tap the

icon to view why we think you’ll be interested in the event, or to hide the event from your timeline. Tap the photo to view conversation surrounding the event.

For the longest time, Twitter has been doing that thing where it shows “popular” tweets instead of the newest stuff. The thing is, that’s a terrible way to experience Twitter. But now you can (finally) arrange tweets chronologically.

For the longest time, Twitter has been doing something like this, which is to display “popular” tweets instead of the latest tweets. The truth is, this is a terrible way to experience Twitter. But now you can (finally) arrange the tweets in chronological order.

This is a relatively new feature on both iOS and Android, but at this point, it should be available to everyone. To keep things simple, the process is identical on both platforms. Here’s the skinny.

This is a relatively new feature on iOS and Android, but for now, the feature should be available to everyone. For simplicity, the process is the same on both platforms. This is skinny.

With your Twitter open on your timeline, take a look in the upper-right corner. There should be a little star icon there. Tap that thing!

Open Twitter on the timeline and view it in the upper right corner. There should be a small star icon there. Click on that thing!

A new menu will open, giving you the option to “See latest Tweets instead.” Tap that to magically, automatically, and some other “cally” get your Tweets in chronological order. The tastiest way to consume Twitter.

A new menu will open and you can select “View latest Tweets”. Tap this button to magically, automatically and other “tips” to get your tweets in chronological order. The most delicious way to consume Twitter.

If you get sick of seeing things in a way that makes sense, you’re also free to go back to the Twitter-curated method. Just tap the little star icon again, the choose the somewhat-snarkily named “Go back Home” option .

If you are tired of looking at things in a meaningful way, then you are also free to use Twitter curated methods. Just tap the little star icon again and select the slightly obscure “Back to Home” option.

And just like that, your tweets are back in an order that makes little-to-no sense.

Just like that, the order in which your tweets are returned is almost meaningless.

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Twitter’s non-chronological timeline was always a bit controversial. After all, the beauty of Twitter is that things are happening in real time, and what’s the point of reading through Twitter if you’re not discovering things as they are occurring?

Whatever reasons Twitter had for implementing this policy, it decided to reverse its course back in late 2018 and allowed users to opt back into a chronological Twitter feed. The keyword here is “opt in” — you still have to manually elect this option to read Twitter the classic way. Here’s how to turn it on.

• Open your Twitter app. If you’ve ever wondered about that sparkly icon on the upper right corner is, well, that’s your magic button.
• Tap it and you’ll get the option to “See latest Tweets instead.”

It’s as easy as that. On the web, you’ll Immediately see the difference. To refresh your feed and see tweets chronologically on your mobile app, either close your app fully and reopen it, or tap the home icon on the lower left corner (there should be a dot over the icon now that indicates new tweets have arrived.) You can also tap the home icon then drag down your feed to manually refresh the stream.

If you decide that chronological just isn’t for you, you can always head back to the sparkle icon and revert to the top tweets feature to get tweets Twitter recommends for you.

This feature is now available for Android, iOS, and the web version of Twitter.

There is good news as Twitter users can now view their Twitter timeline in chronological order. Earlier twitter used to display the most popular aka top tweets ahead of the latest tweets. Fortunately, you can once again choose to show either of them first. The social media platform has added a new feature in its Android app that adds the ability to switch between the latest and top tweets. For those unaware, this feature was first introduced in the Twitter app for iOS last month. It was indeed a highly requested functionality that was removed by Twitter over two years ago.

Users can now view the most recent tweets first rather than a curated timeline where top-ranked tweets are shown first. This will help you know what’s happening in the present instead of seeing popular news stories. The good thing is that one easily switch between the chronological order and top tweets in a single tap. According to Twitter, the company will show the latest tweets by default if a certain user regularly switches to the latest tweets first mode.

How to see the latest tweets first on the Twitter app

To swap between latest and top tweets first on Twitter, follow the steps below:

1. Make sure your Twitter app is updated to the latest version.
2. Open the app on your device.
3. While on the home tab, tap the new “sparkle” toggle from the top right corner.
4. A pop-up will appear where you can choose between the “See latest tweets instead” or the “Go back to Home” option.
5. On choosing either of them, you’ll be shown the preferred tweets in your timeline.

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Included in the most recent update for Twitter Mobile app for iOS is an interesting feature called ‘Show me the best Tweets first’. By enabling this feature you will be able to see the best Tweets first on your timeline, instead of seeing the latest Tweets first.

Show Me The Best Tweets First

According to Twitter, the best tweets that it shows first on your timeline will be based on Twitter’s own interpretation of what you are most likely to be interested in.

The Twitter algorithm takes into account the topics that you are interested in, things that you care about, Tweets that you interact with and activities of people who are similar to you.

This means that you are more likely to see sports related tweets first on your timeline, in case Twitter determines that you are more interested in sports as compared to other topics.

Twitter claims to have received positive feedback from users and wants you to try this new feature and see whether or not you like it. Luckily, this feature can be easily disabled in case you do not like it.

When you open Twitter after being away for a while, the Tweets you’re most likely to care about will appear at the top of your timeline – still recent and in reverse chronological order. The rest of the Tweets will be displayed right underneath, also in reverse chronological order, as always. At any point, just pull-to-refresh to see all new Tweets at the top in the live, up-to-the-second experience you already know and love. – Twitter Blog

Enable or Disable ‘Show me the best tweets first’ on iPhone

Follow the steps below to enable or disable ‘Show me the best tweets first’ on your iPhone

1. Tap on the Twitter app on your iPhone or iPad

2. Login to your Twitter Account in case you are not already logged in

3. Tap on the “Me” tab, located at the bottom right corner of your screen (See image below)

4. Next tap on the Gear Shaped “Settings icon” (See image below)

5. Tap on Settings from the pop up menu

6. Under heading account, tap on your Twitter account (See image below)

7. Next Tap on “Timeline personalization” (See image below)

8. Tap on The Slider beside “Show me the best Tweets first” to set it ON (See image below)

9. Disable ‘Show me the best Tweets First’: In case Twitter Pushes this feature as default, you can easily disable this by moving the Slider to OFF Position (See image above)

Enable or Disable ‘Show me the best tweets first’ on Android

1. Open up the Twitter app

2. Tap on the 3 dot icon at the top right corner of your screen

3. From the dropdown tap on Settings .

4. Next tap on Timeline .

5. Check the option ‘ Show me the best Tweets first ‘ to enable the feature.

6. Disable ‘Show me the best Tweets First’: In case Twitter Pushes this feature as default at any time, you can easily disable this by feature by un-checking the option (See image above)

Enable or Disable ‘Show me the best tweets first’ on Web

1. Log in to your account on Twitter.com

2. Tap on your Profile Image

3. From the Dropdown tap on Settings (See image below)

4. Under Content look for Timeline and toggle on “Show me the best Tweets first” option

Once you enable this feature on Your Device (Twitter Mobile app) and on the Web you will have Twitter serving you the best tweets first, instead of the newest tweets first.

The tweets you’re most likely to care about will appear at the top of your timeline. The rest of your tweets will be displayed below these recommended tweets.

Disable ‘Show me the best Tweets First’ on Web: You can disable this feature at any time on your desktop or laptop by un-checking the option (See image above)

Twitter is one of the most popular social network and microblogging websites, which is having more than 320M monthly active users from across the globe. Twitter was much different from Facebook. Features wise, options wise, looks wise, there were a lot of differences between Facebook and Twitter. Although, most of the people often prefer Facebook over Twitter yet Twitter is not that bad and that is why it is having more than 1B monthly unique visits with embedded tweets.

Anyway, few days ago, Twitter has launched an algorithmic timeline. This is quite similar to Facebook’s timeline. You know that Facebook can show two different timelines. First, you can get popular Facebook posts from your friends, groups and pages. Second, latest Facebook posts from the same. Quite same feature has been arrived on Twitter few days back.

What is Best Tweets First on Twitter?

As mentioned before, Twitter has implemented an algorithmic timeline, which shows posts like Facebook does. This is called Best Tweets First. If Best Tweets First feature is turned on in your Twitter account, you will get most popular and trending tweets from your followed people. Previously, Twitter used to display latest Tweets. But, now, it has been changed to Best Tweets first.

Problem:

This particular feature has advantage as well as disadvantage. The advantage of Best Tweets First is you can get most popular posts right on your timeline after opening Twitter account. That means, you do not have to find out best tweets those are trending now. On the other hand, the disadvantage is you may not be able to see latest tweets from your friends on Twitter. You have to scroll down a lot to check latest tweets. Sometime, this is time consuming and sometime it may not work as it is mentioned.

To solve this problem, you can simply revert back to the old timeline. For that, you have to disable Best Tweets First in your Twitter account. Here is how to turn off Best Tweets First on Android, iOS and Web.

Disable Best Tweets First on Android

This is very easy if you have the official Twitter app for Android. Just follow the subsequent steps to get things done. At first, open Twitter account for that you want to disable Best Tweets First. As this is account based, you will have to open the actual account. Therefore, tap on the three dotted button and go to Settings.

Following that, you have to go to Timeline settings, where you can find a toggle button labelled Show me the best Tweets first. By default, it should be turned on. Just remove the tick from corresponding checkbox to turn it off.

Disable Best Tweets First on iOS

Alike Android, it doesn’t come with any three dotted button. Therefore, you need to follow this guide. At first, go to Me tab to open your profile. Therefore, tap on the settings gear button that is positioned next to your profile picture. Then, tap on Settings.

Here, you will get Timeline settings. Tap on that and toggle the button that says Show me the best Tweets first.

Disable Best Tweets First on Web

If you want to disable it from the web version or the Twitter website, this is even easier. Just open your Twitter account and go to account settings. Here, you can find Show me the best Tweet first option under Content section.

Just remove the tick from the respective checkbox. That will be all.

Hope this tiny trick would be helpful for you to get a better Twitter timeline.

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Tweets in chronological order on web has been fixed –– the option to switch your Home timeline view to latest Tweets first was removed for some of you on web. We’ve fixed this and the option should now be available again for everyone.

Twitter is making a controversial change to its web application. Until recently, Twitter on the web allowed users to easily switch between an algorithmic feed and a chronological feed with a single click, but that option is now being removed completely for people who use Twitter in their browser.

Twitter has long offered users two different options for sorting their feeds: Latest Tweets and Home. The former is a pure chronological feed that shows tweets as they happen, while the latter shows “top tweets” first. This setting has traditionally been easily accessible with an icon directly above the timeline.

In recent days, however, Twitter has started to remove the ability to view Latest Tweets first from the Twitter.com web application. For many users, the toggle between “Latest Tweets” and “Home” has been completely removed. The option is still there for some users, but it seemingly won’t last.

One Twitter user also noticed that Twitter updated a support document to note that the Latest Tweets option is now only available on iOS and Android. The support document explains:

You can choose between viewing the top Tweets first or the latest Tweets first in your timeline (Twitter for iOS and Android only). Top Tweets are ones you are likely to care about most, and we choose them based on accounts you interact with most, Tweets you engage with, and much more.

Update: The support document change appears to have been made a while ago, but it could mean Twitter has long been planning to drop support for “Latest Tweets” on the web.

A quick search on Twitter will show that a vast amount of Twitter users are very upset with this change, and new tweets are rolling in at a rapid pace.

If you’re on a Mac, Twitter for Mac still offers the “Latest Tweets” toggle, but it’s unclear how long that will last. It’s unclear whether Twitter will also eventually remove the “Latest Tweets” option from its native apps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac as well.

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• Twitter now lets any host record Spaces on Android or iOS.
• You can share your Spaces recording for others to listen to it anytime.
• There’s also an option to download a copy of the recording.

Twitter has been improving its Clubhouse-like audio rooms ‘Spaces’ with the feature now available to all users. There’s also a dedicated space on the Twitter app for Spaces and anyone can host from the smartphone app. Twitter also made it possible for any host to record Spaces on Android and iOS last week.

This feature was first rolled out in October last year but only for select hosts on iOS. But now all hosts can record their Spaces conversations from the Android or iOS Twitter app. This also makes it easy for listeners to play the recording if they’ve missed a session.

If you’re interested in hosting Twitter Spaces or are a regular, here’s how you can record your live audio sessions.

When you create a Twitter Space, turn on ‘Record Space’.

A logo will appear on top to indicate the Space is being recorded.

The recording will include only those with speaker privileges.

Once the recording ends, you will get a link that you can share via a tweet.

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Do you want to browse tweets chronologically or in the order Twitter suggests? Now it’s easier to switch between the two modes on the fly.

Twitter has made it easier to switch to your preferred viewing mode in your feed. You can now switch between top tweets and the latest tweets on your timeline through a new tabs feature.

For now, this feature is only available to select iOS users, but will soon expand wider. But how does it work?

Twitter Launches Tabs to Switch Between Home and Latest Tweets

Twitter has released an update that allows you to easily switch between the two different modes of your timeline: Latest tweets and Home.

Instead of having to tap the star option in the top right-hand corner of your screen in Home, you will now be able to switch between the two modes quicker and more easily.

That’s because Twitter now categorizes how you view tweets in separate tabs on the main feed, so you know which view you’re scrolling through, allowing you to switch between the two viewing modes with just one quick tap.

This not only makes it easier to switch between the different viewing modes, but also helps you to tailor your feed to your preference, and to quickly check which mode you’re on while scrolling.

How Twitter’s Home and Latest Tweets Tabs Works

Instead of having to tap the star option in the top right-hand corner of your screen in your Home feed, you will now be able to switch between the Home and Latest viewing modes quicker and more easily.

Tapping the Latest tab will allow you to view just that—the latest tweets as they appear on your timeline. Tapping the Home tab, on the other hand, will allow you to view the top tweets among accounts and topics you have followed.

The new tab-switching feature started being rolled out to certain iOS phones in October, and is expected to be expanded to the Android and web versions in the coming months.

Twitter’s Tab-Switching Feature Helps You Keep Up on Trending Topics

Twitter’s new tab-switching feature will make it easier to sort through tweets, depending on what you’re looking for. On a normal day of scrolling through your feed, you can stay on the Home view mode to catch up on what’s happening on Twitter.

But if you want to catch up on tweets relating to a trending topic or conversation, you can quickly change to Latest tweets to read those tweets as they happen, so you don’t get lost in the conversation.

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Twitter announced it’s testing a new feature that allows the user to swipe between the Home feed and the Latest feed to see tweets on iOS.

Twitter is testing a new feature on iOS to make it easy for users to switch between top tweets and the latest tweets. The tech company is always working on making the user experience better. For example, this year, the platform introduced new privacy settings to protect users’ activity. It also made it easier to remove unwanted followers and the person can now decide who can reply to their tweets. Twitter is also testing other features on iOS, including 4K and full-sized images, being able to share videos without retweeting and YouTube videos automatically playing on the timeline. At some point, these may be tested on Android phones too. Typically, social media companies roll out tests on iOS systems first.

Earlier this year, Facebook made updates to its News Feed. The tech giant launched a Favorites section for users to select up to 30 friends and pages to prioritize on their feed. As with Twitter users, people on Facebook also want to access the latest posts, so Facebook created the Feed Filter Bar for users to switch to chronologically sorted feed to see the most recent posts.

Twitter announced on its Twitter Support page that they are currently testing a way for users to swipe between two timelines, “Home” and “Latest.” On the Home feed, the Twitter algorithm sorts the tweets for the user. The Latest feed will show posts in reverse chronological order. At the moment, users can access the Latest feed by clicking on the stars on the right-hand corner in the app. Twitter will then prompt them to switch to the latest Tweets. They can also view content preferences. Users can repeat the same steps to return to Home. The tech company made this option available in 2018. Of course, Twitter was set up to show the latest tweets initially, but in 2015 the social media platform decided to implement an algorithm for its timeline.

What We Now About the Feature So Far

The new feature will appear at the top of the screen. Twitter tweeted a GIF to show what it will look like. The company wants to make it easier for users to just swipe between the feeds. This is good news for users who want a quicker way to see the latest tweets from their followers. According to The Verge, Some iOS users may already have access to this new feature for the test.

Twitter has not said if it plans to roll out the test to more iPhones or if it will test the feature on Androids or when it would do so.

Twitter now allows iOS and Android users to record Spaces. Here’s all you need to know about the new feature.

Twitter has been going big with its Spaces feature that lets people get involved in audio-only chatrooms with their followers. The feature also now has its own dedicated button in the Twitter app’s bottom ribbon. Now, the platform is rolling out a new feature that will let you go back to Spaces once they’ve ended as it will now support recordings.

However, only the hosts of a Space will be able to record it. A new record toggle was spotted being tested on the iOS app for Twitter back in October, but now the feature is coming to all Android and iOS users.

Twitter announced the feature with a tweet from its official handle. Check it out below.

Another update on Spaces Recording:

The option for hosts to record is now available for everyone on Android and iOS! When starting a Space, tap the “Record Space” switch to have it available for public playback for 30 days once the Space has ended.

Just like with Zoom, Twitter will show a visual indicator to all members in the space to let them know if a particular Space is being recorded. The recording will be available for 30 days after a Space has ended, during which the host can access it.

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As pointed out by XDA Developers, Twitter already kept the audio files for Spaces in its servers, which users could access prior to this feature by requesting an archive of your account information. However, this could take hours or days, in contrast to the new recording feature which allows you access immediately after a Space has ended.

The recording feature is only available for the Twitter iOS and Android apps. The Twitter web app on both desktop and mobile still cannot be used to record Spaces, or even create them.

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Twitter is debuting a new feature in the form of “Search Tweets,” where one does not need to scroll down a profile anymore to look for a certain tweeted word or phrase. The feature was said to be rolling out to iOS devices now but is not yet in full release, and its availability to the Android platform is coming soon.

Users can now use keywords and the like to search one’s or a certain profile to find a tweet, and it would help in scrolling up and down the Tweets tab.

Twitter: Search Feature for iOS Devices is Rolling Out to Select Users

As first seen by a social media consultant known as Matt Navarra, a magnifying glass icon is seen on the top right corner, right atop the header of a user whose profile is searched or clicked. The feature is now available for some iOS users, with its rollout not yet on a full blast. The feature can now be accessed and it would allow users to type in keywords or phrases.

Using these words and hitting the search function, users can see the tweets of a certain Twitter account, having access to certain tweets that were a part of their history and past. The contribution of this feature would help in retrieving past tweets without the need to look for them in the Tweets tab, scroll up and down the profile, and skim each tweet that passes.

Twitter 🔍 search user’s tweets button on profiles is now available (for some users)

When will Android get the Feature?

Android users do not have the feature yet, but do not worry as it is coming soon. Moreover, it would shortly be released to the Google OS after the iOS has received the feature already, and has it available to all of its users.

The web application will soon follow; however, it already has a similar feature on its platform with the advanced search. If a person is not familiar with the advanced search, it would be challenging to do this, and search tweets would help in making the process easier.

Twitter: Features and Development

Twitter is also an application and social media that is all up in bringing new features and tech that would help in bringing accessibility to users that focus on making their experience better in the platform. One of the most popular ones is the soft block feature that removes a follower from one’s list, without needing to block and unblock them.

Another one is the “Heads Up” feature and it would appear whenever clicking the “Show Conversation” button that would reveal the entire talk or its history of tweets from a different user. The company’s platform would assess if it has gotten out of hand or is leading to a toxic talk, something that would help in avoiding a bad experience on social media.

The most recent is the Search Tweet, something that has long been requested by users to come to the platform, and is now available in the iOS app.

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Twitter’s premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, is launching today in the U.S. as well as New Zealand, offering an expanded slate of features meant to appeal to Twitter’s most engaged users. The service will be available across iOS, Android and the web for $2.99 per month (or $4.49 NZD). Twitter Blue first arrived this summer in Canada and Australia, giving subscribers a set of tools to organize their bookmarks, read Twitter threads in a clutter-free format and quickly fix typos before tweets were posted, among other things. With the expanded rollout, Twitter Blue will also enable early access to new features via the recently launched Twitter Labs, and it will offer ad-free news articles from hundreds of publishers, thanks to Twitter’s springtime acquisition of Scroll.

And, as an added perk, Twitter is bringing back Scroll’s news aggregator Nuzzel as a new feature called “Top Articles.”

Nuzzel had a small but devoted user base, which had been disappointed to see Twitter had shuttered down their favorite service following its buyout of Nuzzel’s parent company, Scroll. The service had acted as a missing curation layer to Twitter’s tweets by showing users what people you were connected with on Twitter were reading about and sharing across the platform. This served as a more personalized way to tune into what was being discussed compared with just scrolling through Twitter’s trends.

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Today, Twitter says it will make this same feature available to Twitter Blue subscribers as Top Articles. The feature will allow users to see the most shared articles in their network over the past 24 hours.

The addition joins other now standard Twitter Blue offerings, including the ability to sort saved tweets (aka “Bookmarks”) into folders for easier access, the ability to customize Twitter’s theme, choose a custom app icon and view long Twitter threads in a cleaned-up, distraction-free reading experience with just a tap.

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And of course, Twitter Blue gives subscribers the closest thing you’ll get to Twitter’s most-requested feature — an “edit” button — with its alternative, an “Undo Tweet” button. This allows users to catch a typo and fix it before the tweet is fully posted, but not correct tweets that are already live.

Twitter Blue also includes a few personalization features as well, including theming, custom icons and, now, the ability to customize the app’s bottom navigation tab with your own favorite Twitter destinations, like Twitter Spaces, Bookmarks, Top Articles, Lists, Monetization and others. This may make Twitter feel more personalized to you, but limits Twitter’s ability to place new features it may want to promote in key spots in the app going forward.

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Subscribers also gain access to Twitter Labs, which is where Twitter will roll out its early-stage experiments first. At launch, Twitter Labs offers longer, 10-minute video uploads from the web (instead of two minutes for non-subscribers), and the ability to pin favorite Direct Message (DM) conversations to the top of the inbox, both of which were previously announced.

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Another new feature is the ability to read news articles shared on Twitter without advertising and clutter. This feature is also enabled through Twitter’s acquisition of Scroll, and essentially works the same way as Scroll did. The company partnered with hundreds of publishers to offer a fast-loading, ad-free reading experience to Twitter Blue subscribers who click the links they come across on the platform. Among the notable names participating are The Washington Post, BuzzFeed and BuzzFeed News, Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Huffpost, The Atlantic, Insider, USA Today, MacRumors, BGR, Slate, Daily Beast, Miami Herald, Stylecaster, TV Line, Salon, Mother Jones, The Sacramento Bee, The Philadelphia Inquirer, SEJ and others.

When Twitter Blue members click news links to these sites, the publisher itself will serve the ad-free reading experience to the user — not Twitter. Currently, Twitter says it has 300 U.S.-based sites up and running on Twitter Blue, and “many more” will arrive in the future.

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Quick loading, clutter-free articles is a feature that other tech giants have offered, including Facebook with its Instant Articles and Google with AMP. But these earlier efforts have been controversial for locking publishers into the format, which could then dictate their visibility on the respective platform. They were also sometimes criticized for not delivering on their promises, like increased monetization, and for offering publishers limited user data.

Twitter, however, touts its news reading feature as a way for subscribers to support their favorite sites, as a portion of the Twitter Blue subscription will be paid out directly to the participating publishers. The app will display a chart that shows you which sites have received payments based on your own readership, and how much they’ve made.

The plan, says Twitter, is to make the micro-payments deliver more revenue than ads.

“Our goal is that each site makes 50% more per person than they were making serving ads to that person,” said Twitter Senior Director of Product Tony Haile, when introducing the feature. “At Twitter, we recognize that a great public conversation requires a thriving journalism ecosystem. So with Blue, we’re not just trying to enable a better internet for subscribers, but a better internet for journalism, too,” he added.

But these micro-payments may not go far enough in terms of replacing the potential monetization that comes from having readers visit a site directly, where they’ll encounter not only ads, but other promotions and initiatives a site has to offer — like subscriptions, free and paid newsletters, event tickets or whatever else the publisher may want to put in front of its audience. Twitter Blue readers may also not be able to recirculate through the site as web visitors do, decreasing overall engagement.

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Twitter notes that some of Twitter Blue’s features will vary by market and platform, at launch.

Top Articles is initially live on Android and desktop at launch. Personalization features like app icons and themes are iOS only, as is custom navigation and pinned DM conversations. Support for longer video uploads from the web, obviously, is desktop-only.

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Micro-blogging site Twitter has quietly rolled back its support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on mobile, according to a support page.

The support page originally detailed how Twitter would automatically send users of its mobile apps to the AMP version of a page from links posted on the social network, reports The Verge.

However, at some point since October 21, Twitter updated the page with a notice saying it is retiring the feature by the end of the year, the report said.

According to data from Search Engine Land, this retirement process appears to have been completed earlier this month.

Now, attempting to visit a page from Twitter appears to send users directly to the regular web page, rather than an AMP version that may be available.

Although Twitter notes that the AMP allows for “fast-loading, beautiful, high-performing mobile web experiences,” the technology has proved controversial since Google introduced it in 2015.

Much of the controversy centred around Google’s perceived control of the project, with some critics claiming that it amounted to Google’s attempt to reinforce its control of the open web.

But it also has more basic user interface problems for a platform like Twitter because of the way it can mess with URLs, when it makes pages appear to be from Google regardless of the website that created them.

According to the report, it is an annoying situation that has led to the creation of browser extensions that automatically redirect AMP pages to the original article URL to reduce confusion.

Twitter’s support document does not give a reason for its change in policy.

The company’s move follows a policy change from Google itself in May 2020 when it announced that it would no longer require news sites to offer AMP versions of their pages to be featured in its search engine’s Top Stories section.

The move was a long time coming following a Google initiative launched in May 2018 to take what the company had learned from AMP and turn its features into general web standards.

They span the width of the timeline so a user’s photos, GIFs, and videos can have more room

Twitter has started to test edge to edge tweets for users on Android. Twitter in September began conducting a new test on iOS that will display Tweets and media edge to edge, across the width of the timeline to give them more room.

Edge to edge Tweets spans the width of the timeline so a user’s photos, GIFs, and videos can have more room. It has now begun testing the feature on Android. Further, based on feedback, it has also made some updates to the test on Android.

“This is now testing on Android! Some of you will see edge to edge Tweets on the timeline that give more room for your photos, GIFs, and videos,” Twitter wrote from its official Support account.

“We heard you –– Tweets were *too* edge to edge in this experiment. So we’ve updated it on Android to test more space between Tweets on the timeline so it’s easier to tell when one Tweet ends and the next begins,” it added.

Separately, earlier this week, the microblogging platform had announced that video captions will now be automatically on videos. On Android & iOS, auto-captions will show on muted Tweet videos. Users can keep them on when unmuted via their device’s accessibility settings. On the web, they can use the “CC” button to turn captions on/off.

It also announced an update to another test that prompts users on Android and iOS when they are about to enter a conversation that could get heated or intense based on user feedback.

“We got your feedback –– prompts on potentially intense convos weren’t hitting the mark. We’ve made some updates & will test them for a limited time on iOS & web,” it said. “We’ve added signals to more accurately determine when prompts appear. You won’t see more than 3 prompts per day,” it added.

As mentioned in the official tweet that announced the feature, the option for hosts to record Twitter Spaces is now available for all users on Android and iOS.

Twitter Spaces now allows all hosts on iOS and Android to record an audio conversation. The recorded part will be available to listen to for all users for a maximum of 30 days. Previously, this feature was available for a few iOS and Android users. The feature will help users to reach more followers with the recorded playback and it might be useful under certain circumstances. Keep reading to know more about the Twitter Spaces recording feature.

Most recently, Twitter also released a new feature called ‘Quote tweet with reaction’. The feature is similar to the Reels Reply on Instagram that was launched recently and allows users to reply to Reels by making their own short video. The feature is called Reels Visual Replies and will help creators reply to comments on their posts with their own unique style. Reels Virtual Replies will help Instagram to increase engagement on the platform. The Twitter reaction via video seems to be inspired by the feature on Instagram.

Twitter Space enables recording for all users

As mentioned in the official tweet that announced the feature, the option for hosts to record Twitter Spaces is now available for all users on Android and iOS. While starting a Twitter Space conversation, users can enable the Record Space feature to enable public playback which will be available for 30 days after the live audio conversation has ended. To create a Spaces Recording, Hosts will need to toggle on ‘Record Space’ prior to launching a new Space. All participants will see a recording icon appear when they enter the Space indicating that the Space is being recorded. Once the Space ends, Hosts will have access to the full-length recording for 30 days after the initial broadcast, during which they can share it or Tweet it.

Twitter Spaces was launched back in November 2020 to rival the popular audio-only social platform Clubhouse. However, the feature of creating audio-only chat rooms or hosting a Space was limited to Twitter users with 600 followers or more. Nevertheless, Twitter is now rolling out the Space feature for all users. Hereafter, users on the microblogging platform will be able to create a Space chatroom without any restrictions based on the number of followers.

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One of the biggest questions when building an app is: which app platform should I build my app for – iOS or Android? Or both? The answer is actually not so simple. You may benefit from starting as either an Apple app or a Play Store app depending on your situation.

Why? Because there are cases when choosing just one is smarter.

One is if the size of your operation is on the smaller side – you want to focus your resources on perfecting one platform before expanding into another. The second is your experience in launching apps. If it’s your first app, you may want to start with one platform to test your users’ behavior.

Also, starting with one app platform gives you more management control and makes a smaller dent in your pocket compared to launching in two platforms. If you fail on the platform that you’ve tried, you can learn from your mistakes and adjust your strategy before investing in developing on the other platform.

If you’ve decided to launch on one app platform, then is iOS or Android a better choice? Each platform yields advantages and disadvantages, so let’s take a closer look at:

• Google Play App Store Launch Pros
• Google Play App Store Launch Cons
• iOS Apple App Store Pros
• iOS Apple App Store Cons

Google Play Store App Launch Pros

• Easier approval process than iOS

• Allows for local and global experiments to test your creatives and concepts

This is a great feature that Google has, as it allows developers to better understand their target audience per geographic location. It makes app customization and localization easier and lets developers filter the creatives that are effective for certain cultures and the ones that are not.

• Run Google Universal App Campaign (UAC) ads without attribution trackers.

Attribution trackers are a great asset to use when you want to monitor and make touchpoints with your users’ actions. But, when it’s a requirement, it can also be tedious and expensive. The Play Store leaves the option of whether or not to attribution trackers to the developers.

Google Play Store App Launch Cons

• Google Play users spend less than iOS users

According to Appsflyer when it comes to in-app purchases, on average, iOS users spend 2.5 times more on mobile apps than Android users.

• No access to Apple Search Ads (ASA)

Well-loved for being a high-intent based channel, Apple Search Ads is a highly efficient tool for developers to use. It can help your app stand out from the crowd, lower CPI, and allows cross-sell and upsell opportunities.

• Only Android users can use Android apps

So if a Play Store app is shared via social media or word of mouth, only Android owners can complete the install – meaning that all iOS phone owners will miss out.

iOS Apple App Launch Pros

• Leveraging Apple Search Ads

Unlike Android apps, being an Apple app gives you this ASA tool which places more emphasis on the users’ intent. A more defined intent means that you’re able to better select and price your keywords and maximize your number of impressions.

• Apple users spend more on apps than Android users

In 2018, the average gross income generated by the top 100 developers on the App Store was $83.8 million compared to $51 million for the Play Store’s top 100. So, you have a better chance for monetization publishing on the iOS app store.

• The chance to get featured in the Apple Store

Grabbing a spot on the App Store’s feature page is a huge win for increasing traffic and driving installs. is a key advantage because 42% of all app installs through the App Store comes from discovering featured or ranked apps (Clearbridgemobile).

• You can test the performance of your creative assets with Apple Search Ads

This feature allows you to preview your creatives before officially launching. This is a definite advantage because you can see exactly how your ads will look and if they will be successful with your targeted audience.

iOS Apple App Launch Cons:

• No testing feature in App Store Connect

the iOS environment is limited for creative assets & meta A/B testing

• Apple has more restrictive rules regarding asset approvals

90% of apps are approved over 48 hrs and 40% of apps are rejected during their first submission. Apple tests and analyzes for any bugs, broken links, false screenshots, repeated submission of similar apps, placeholder content, etc. To ensure your app is approved in its first submission, developers must look through Apple’s full app submission guidelines and meet all of its requirements.

• You can leverage UAC without an attribution tracker SDK (like Android)

• Only iOS users can use iOS apps

So if an iOS app is shared via social media or word of mouth, only iPhone owners can access the app

Launching multiple platforms at the same time is very beneficial for the network effect; however, when it comes to bugs, crashes, and maintenance, two platforms will require more QA & development time as well as marketing and resource allocation.

To learn more about app launch strategies, contact us and let’s chat!

Twitter is looking to take the next steps with its audio social push by expanding Spaces hosting to all users in the app.

the time has arrived — we’re now rolling out the ability for everyone on iOS and Android to host a Space

if this is your first time hosting, welcome! here’s a refresher on how

Up till now, the option to host a Space has been limited to those with at least 600 followers. All Twitter users have been able to tune into Spaces chats, but only those above that 600 follower threshold have been able to start up their own audio broadcasts,

Now, it’ll be an all-in – which is good in one way, in that it will provide increased capacity for people to communicate in more formats on the platform. But it adds more challenge in another, because while giving everyone access to such options sounds great, the actual logistics and technical process of then guiding an audience to the most relevant discussions, in real-time, gets a lot harder when many more conversations are happening.

Twitter’s still working on this – it added topics for Spaces last month to help maximize Spaces matching to interested users, which it tweaked again this week with the added capability to edit tagged topics in scheduled Spaces.

It’s also still rolling out its Spaces tab to more users, which will better highlight in-progress chats, at any time of day, aligned to your registered interests (who you follow, topics, etc.).

That, ideally, will help Twitter get the most value out of the option, by showcasing the best, most relevant chats to every user. But again, as more broadcasters come online, which inevitably also means more bad broadcasters, and spammers a well, it’s going to take some effort to refine its system filters, and ensure that it can put the best Spaces for you into your feed.

Which is where Facebook is likely taking a better approach, by only rolling out its audio rooms to celebrities and influencers, and within groups (and also now selected SMB Pages), which will better enable it to ensure that users see only audio rooms that are of relevance to them. Reddit has also taken a similar path with its audio social option – so while Twitter and Clubhouse are, seemingly, the leaders in the audio social space right now, it remains to be seen whether people will stay interested in the option if both apps aren’t able to keep providing linkage to the most relevant content.

If people head to the Spaces tab and find junk, it won’t take long for them to stop trying. The same goes for Clubhouse. Facilitating broader connection is one thing, but sorting the wheat from the chaff is another key element, and we’ve already seen with the rise, and then decline of video live-streaming, that this will happen, people will stop paying attention and logging into these apps and platforms if all they keep seeing is the same rubbish over and over again.

Which makes perfect sense, and Twitter is still a way off rectifying this element.

So while it’s good to see Spaces expanded to more people, it also adds to Twitter challenges in sorting audio content to maximize consumption.

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Once the Space ends, Hosts will have access to the full-length Recording for 30 days after the initial broadcast, during which they can share it or Tweet it. / Representative Image | Photo: Pixabay

Micro-blogging site Twitter has started rolling out a new feature allowing all Android and iOS users to record Spaces.

“Recording has launched to everyone on iOS and Android! hope you’ve gotten used to the sound of your own voice,” the company said in a tweet.

Twitter first introduced recording to a limited number of hosts in October, promising the feature would be available to all hosts soon.

Once the Space ends, Hosts will have access to the full-length Recording for 30 days after initial broadcast, during which they can share it or Tweet it.

Listeners will also have the ability to play back any recorded Space directly from their timeline.

Earlier, Twitter rolled out the ability for users to share direct links to their Spaces to let others tune into a live audio session via the web without being logged into the platform.

The social media giant said the new functionality is aimed at Spaces users who have friends that are not on Twitter but would still want to listen in on a Space.

The expansion opens up Twitter Spaces to even more people and gives the social media giant a better chance of reaching new customers outside of its platform.

The functionality also gives Twitter Spaces an edge over rivals like Clubhouse and Facebook’s Live Audio Rooms.

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Since we added Capacitor to our project when it was first created, there’s only a handful of steps remaining until the Photo Gallery app is on our device!

Remember, you can find the complete source code for this app here.

Capacitor Setup​

Capacitor is Ionic’s official app runtime that makes it easy to deploy web apps to native platforms like iOS, Android, and more. If you’ve used Cordova in the past, consider reading more about the differences here.

If you’re still running ionic serve in the terminal, cancel it. Complete a fresh build of the Ionic project, fixing any errors that it reports:

Next, create both the iOS and Android projects:

Both android and ios folders at the root of the project are created. These are entirely standalone native projects that should be considered part of your Ionic app (i.e., check them into source control, edit them using their native tooling, etc.).

Every time you perform a build (e.g. ionic build ) that updates your web directory (default: build ), you’ll need to copy those changes into your native projects:

Note: After making updates to the native portion of the code (such as adding a new plugin), use the sync command:

To build an iOS app, you’ll need a Mac computer.

Capacitor iOS apps are configured and managed through Xcode (Apple’s iOS/Mac IDE), with dependencies managed by CocoaPods. Before running this app on an iOS device, there’s a couple of steps to complete.

First, run the Capacitor open command, which opens the native iOS project in Xcode:

In order for some native plugins to work, user permissions must be configured. In our photo gallery app, this includes the Camera plugin: iOS displays a modal dialog automatically after the first time that Camera.getPhoto() is called, prompting the user to allow the app to use the Camera. The permission that drives this is labeled “Privacy – Camera Usage.” To set it, the Info.plist file must be modified (more details here). To access it, click “Info,” then expand “Custom iOS Target Properties.”

Each setting in Info.plist has a low-level parameter name and a high-level name. By default, the property list editor shows the high-level names, but it’s often useful to switch to showing the raw, low-level names. To do this, right-click anywhere in the property list editor and toggle “Raw Keys/Values.”

Add the NSCameraUsageDescription Key and set the Value to something that describes why the app needs to use the camera, such as “To Take Photos.” The Value field is displayed to the app user when the permission prompt opens.

Follow the same process to add the other two Keys required of the Camera plugin: NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription and NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription .

Next, click on App in the Project Navigator on the left-hand side, then within the Signing & Capabilities section, select your Development Team.

With permissions in place and Development Team selected, we are ready to try out the app on a real device! Connect an iOS device to your Mac computer, select it ( App -> Matthew’s iPhone for me) then click the “Build” button to build, install, and launch the app on your device:

Upon tapping the Camera button on the Photo Gallery tab, the permission prompt will display. Tap OK, then take a picture with the Camera. Afterward, the photo shows in the app!

Android​

Capacitor Android apps are configured and managed through Android Studio. Before running this app on an Android device, there’s a couple of steps to complete.

First, run the Capacitor open command, which opens the native Android project in Android Studio:

Similar to iOS, we must enable the correct permissions to use the Camera. Configure these in the AndroidManifest.xml file. Android Studio will likely open this file automatically, but in case it doesn’t, locate it under android/app/src/main/ .

Scroll to the Permissions section and ensure these entries are included:

Save the file. With permissions in place, we are ready to try out the app on a real device! Connect an Android device to your computer. Within Android Studio, click the “Run” button, select the attached Android device, then click OK to build, install, and launch the app on your device.

Once again, upon tapping the Camera button on the Photo Gallery tab, the permission prompt should be displayed. Tap OK, then take a picture with the Camera. Afterward, the photo should appear in the app.

Our Photo Gallery app has just been deployed to Android and iOS devices. 🎉

In the final portion of this tutorial, we’ll use the Ionic CLI’s Live Reload functionality to quickly implement photo deletion – thus completing our Photo Gallery feature.