Twitter launches open beta testing of new features

Twitter announced the launch of the open beta of new social networking features

After Engaget

Any user will be able to apply for the company, which will select several thousand. Twitter will therefore bring the user's reaction to new communication opportunities within the social network. This is a new type of tweets that the company has been testing for several months. Twitter plans to completely change the look of messages in tweets, dividing them into "branches" and changing the color. In addition, the social network plans to launch a special format of tweets-statuses, which will be set at the top of the profile. Innovations are designed to encourage people to communicate with each other.

"We want to develop a service for people who intend to use it, so we need to engage people in this way," says Sarah Hayder, director of product management on Twitter. added that while Twitter is a great conversation for a wide range of topics, users sometimes have to work around the product so that it works for them.

The open beta concept assumes that users participating in the program will be able to talk about it. new features and more make screenshots. Twitter itself will ask the testers to share their thoughts on a particular innovation.

Recently, Instagram's social network removed the update of the interface through mass criticism on Twitter. Since 2016, Twitter uses an algorithm that forms a news feed based on popular tweets, regardless of their "freshness". In addition, the company plans to abandon defamation under the posts in order to improve the quality of communication.