It seems that Twitter is dressing up with Facebook, or at least its reactions. According to applications specialist Manchun Wong, the technology led by Jack Dorsey would be working on something more than a simple heart , previously a star, in tweets to demonstrate user reactions.
Perhaps because of the ambiguity of the heart when it comes to representing the reactions, everything indicates that Twitter would be expanding the options to “joy, hmm, sad or hahaha” .
A whole range of options that would end many of the problems in the social network. Because precisely the interactions or the fact of how they are manifested is one of the basic problems of Twitter. Like LinkedIn at the time and Facebook in 2016, social networks want to go one step further.
Unlike Facebook, Twitter would not be adding the option of anger in their reactions. It makes perfect sense. If there is something that Twitter does not need in its spaces, it is more anger in its reactions. It is precisely the form of reaction and the responses to tweets themselves that set this pattern.
When will this implementation be seen on the Twitter accounts of common mortals? The reality is that the company has not even specified if it will be something that it will take into account in the next integrations. All despite the results of several surveys of Twitter users that point to a positive acceptance of a form of expression beyond the heart that comes by default and that, to date, may have various meanings.
In any case, Twitter is still eager to fully delve into the concept of audio within its social network. In response to the podcast phenomenon and the most recent ClubHouse boom, all platforms are working on their own system. In the case of Twitter it would be Spaces . There has also been talk of a subscription system called Twitter Blue , which would go beyond advertising in the monetization of the company and that the company itself has confirmed its imminent arrival. As well as resuming the issue of the verified accounts that was stalled before the pandemic back in 2017. Everything indicated that it would return, although after a week of work Twitter announced another slowdown for no reason.
