Twitter continues to be updated with new - although not original- features. If they recently eliminated the 140-character limit on direct messages and added the possibility of sending them to different recipients at the same time, just yesterday they surprised us with a new function that we don't know if it will be very well received .
The company announced that direct messages will add a new read receipt feature, in the form ofblue check and a time stamp that will indicate at what time our recipient has read the message.Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking: WhatsApp's double blue check mark. So you no longer have an excuse when it comes to ignoring those who send you messages private because they will know, whether we like it or not, that we have read it (or at least that we have opened it).
Twitter also announced a new typing indicator, which will tell us when the other user is typing with whom we are communicating by direct message, as it happens in WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messenger They will also allow you to preview attached links within messages without having to exit the application.
It's pretty clear what you're looking for Twitter with these new changes right? The write indicator function and read receipts are two features of instant messaging applicationsIt seems that Twitter is using all the bullets it has left in its chamber in order to add new users (especially young ones) and not lose the ones it has left for now . We must not forget that in just one year Snapchat managed to gain more followers than Twitter and these data are not very encouraging for the microblogging social network.
We are not very clear to what extent this function will help Twitter to build (or maintain) its empire since, for On the one hand, direct messages have not been their forte, but that has never been their function, rather it was just another communication complement. On the other hand, the blue check is one of the most terrible things that has happened to humanity (in a clear technological sense) in recent times. They have broken couples and friendships in addition to increasing people's anxiety levels.
For the moment the function of blue check will only be found in the mobile application, so , if we want to avoid it until some alternative appears, we simply have to read the direct messages in the desktop version. Another option is activate the preview in the notifications of our phone, so, when we receive a message we will know whether to read it at the moment or wait to see it from the computer to prevent it from being marked as read.
Like everything in life you have to see the bright side; Now with this new function we can know if people really didn't read our messages or if they simply ignored us.
