If a month ago we saw how the boys of Twitter limited the use of their API to control the traffic generated by its users and therefore limit the functionalities of third-party applications. Now we get the news that they would be testing new features so that we can spend more time on their application.
It was announced by Jack Dorsey himself, one of the co-founders of Twitter: they want presence and continuity, understood this continuity as a chain of messaging. I mean, the guys on Twitter want us to use their app as a messaging app. After the jump we give you all the details of these plans of the guys from Twitter ...
As you can see in the image that heads this post, the idea is that we use Twitter for everything. Lately they have been giving more importance to tweet threads and direct messages, therefore the objective is improve how these threads are displayed and also add an activity status indicator (the one of if we are connected or not) in the photograph of each user. Something that we have begun to see in applications like Instagram and what would lead us to spend more time on the app when waiting for a response from our interlocutor.
We will see what this is all about, it seems that if you don't have an app in which users spend all their time, you don't have a good app, something we've seen in many other applications and that also reaches Twitter. I am personally not very much in favor of these activity status indicators, but As long as we are the ones who decide when to activate it or not, they are welcome. News from Twitter that makes us see that the microblogging social network is reluctant to die when many spoke of its possible disappearance, I sincerely believe that Twitter still has a long way to go ...