Twitter UI overhaul: Easy swipe right/left, long form tweets, more is coming soon, Elon Musk

New Delhi: Twitter head Elon Musk has informed Twitter users that the first part of the UI overhaul is coming to the microblogging site this week. This will allow users to easily swipe right/left between recommended vs followed tweets, which they announced earlier. He further revealed that the bookmark button, which is virtually silent like the tweet description, will be explained a week later.

According to Elon Musk, Twitter will soon allow longer-form tweets starting next month.

“Easier right/left swipes to move between recommended vs. followed tweets coming later this week. First part of much bigger UI overhaul. Bookmarks button on tweet details (actually muted like that) rolling out a week later.” Happens. Tweets long form in early February. Elon Musk tweeted on Jan 8, 2023.

Twitter plans to expand to political ads soon

Micro-blogging platform Twitter announced on Wednesday that it plans to “expand” political advertising “in the coming weeks”. The platform made the announcement from its Twitter Safety account, saying: “Today, we’re relaxing our advertising policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand to political advertising in the coming weeks “

“Going forward, we will align our advertising policy with those of TV and other media outlets. As with all policy changes, we will first ensure that our approach to content review and approval is protecting the safety of people on Twitter.” does.” Several users expressed their views on the announcement of the platform.

While one user said, “That’s actually a good call on Twitter. A bit shocking”, another commented, “Translation: advertisers don’t want to advertise here anymore, so we’re going to do whatever it takes to advertise safely.” have been”.

Meanwhile, in November 2019, Twitter officially banned all forms of political advertising from its platform, with former CEO Jack Dorsey announcing that the micro-blogging site would no longer allow those ads.

(With IANS inputs)