Twitter slapped another social media stat on user tweets. It’s the number of bookmarks.
On Thursday, Twitter began rolling out analytics to tweets showing how many times they were tweeted. bookmarked(opens in new tab)At launch, bookmarks stats will only appear in Twitter’s iOS app, but will soon expand to include Twitter for the web and other platforms.
This is what the bottom of the tweet page looks like now. So many…
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“I like the bookmark feature that lets me save tweets to revisit later.” Posted(opens in new tab) Official @TwitterSupport account. “Starting today on iOS, Tweet details will show the total number of times a Tweet has been bookmarked.
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For clarity, the number of times a Tweet was bookmarked is public. Bookmarks are private, so users cannot see who bookmarked a Tweet.
“We do not show accounts that have bookmarked Tweets,” Twitter said. Added(opens in new tab) to that tweet statement.
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The addition of bookmarks has already been heavily criticized on Twitter, with users feeling the numbers are meaningless.someone else has teased(opens in new tab) Twitter adds so many different social media stats to individual tweets that it clutters the tweet page.Women, especially on platforms, are hampered in finding a way out many times(opens in new tab) Photos of themselves they shared are bookmarked.
Tweets already showed the number of times they were retweeted, quoted and liked. Twitter rolled out in December, shortly after Elon Musk bought the company. views Also on Twitter. With the addition of Bookmarks, every Tweet now has 5 different metrics.
Jane Manchun Wong is a developer who often notices new features being added to apps before they are officially rolled out. report(opens in new tab) Regarding the addition of Twitter bookmark counts to Tweet details last month.she too noticed(opens in new tab) The number of bookmarks is also a current trend that is published.
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“Just looking at porn tweets seems to have a high bookmark-to-like ratio,” Wong tweeted.
For those unfamiliar with this feature, Twitter first bookmarks 2018Prior to that, many Twitter users would “like” tweets in order to save them for later use. However, since likes are public, ‘liking’ a tweet is often misinterpreted as endorsing the post’s statement. You have successfully created a collection privately.
on Twitter in January of this year. moved(opens in new tab) Change the mobile app’s bookmarking functionality from a dropdown menu to a tappable icon that appears on the same page as each Tweet. The goal was to encourage the use of features on the platform.After a while, mask murmured(opens in new tab) His intention to include the number of times a tweet was bookmarked in the total number of likes. However, with the rollout of bookmark counts, the two metrics appear to be kept separate.
As we all know, Musk is a big fan of social media stats.
The billionaire reportedly called an emergency meeting with Twitter engineers on Super Bowl night After tweet President Joe Biden’s accomplishments surpassed his one. The next day, Twitter rolled out an algorithm change, inserting Musk’s tweets at the top of all users’ feeds.
Musk also called Twitter “biggest click driver(opens in new tab) We later deleted the tweet because a fact-check pointed out that the social network was actually a fairly low-traffic driver compared to our competitors.
