All the new arrivals Twitter are gradually implemented. It is something that characterizes this social network. First, a small group of people test the new function and the details are refined. Finally, it is gradually being implemented to the rest of the users. This way everyone can access a new function without errors due to the previous steps. A Twitter user known for her reverse engineering maneuvers has discovered that Twitter could implement the reactions in all its tweets in the purest Facebook style. When will we see this well-known function in the blue bird social network?
Reverse engineering discovers reactions on Twitter
The last of the functions implemented by Twitter consists of limit conversations in a certain tweet. That is, it is the user who can decide who and how they can interact with a certain message. In this way the user can have a more controlled conversation without distractions. In addition to this function, it has also been gradually incorporated scheduling tweets with the aim of self-publishing messages without having to pick up the phone at a certain moment.
The novelty comes from the hand of Jane Manchun Wong, a Twitter user known for her shenanigans in the field of reverse engineering. The objective of using this type of perception is to take the final version of the social network and tear up the code until you find something new. This has happened this time. From the final version of Twitter, it has been discovered what the next step for Twitter could be: incorporates reactions to tweets in true Facebook style.
Twitter is working on Tweet Reactions…? pic.twitter.com/3Sb6c8cYe3
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) June 10, 2020
The caption at the top of this article is what Wong has managed to extract. In it we can see how in a tweet we can perform four actions:
- Retweet
- Retweet with comment
- React: There are 6 emojis to interact with the tweet, although there could be more, it is possible, if you click on the emoji logo, although that is unknown
- React with Fleet: this novelty was already known a few months ago. The fleets are the Twitter stories, in the purest Instagram style. Messages that self-destruct from time to time. With this interaction we would add that particular tweet to our Fleet.
Many media echo this news that it could be a leak for Twitter. Plus, it's a very credible leak for a number of reasons. First of all, because the reactions with emoticons reached direct messages a few weeks ago. Also the way in which it has been discovered is key: it is not a leak, but an extraction of information through reverse engineering, nothing new has been invented. And, finally, Twitter is in a very important process of changes and the line it is following coincides with the leak exposed by Manchun Wong.
Update: 'It's something we tried last year'
Hours after Wong leaked this information through his Twitter account, Suzanne Xie, product manager at Twitter, assured Wong in a tweet that this feature was tested last year as an alternative to retweet.
Hey Jane! This was something we tested last year - being able to easily QT with an emoji reaction instead of a simple RT. 🙂
- Suzanne Xie (@suzannexie) June 11, 2020