All You Need to Know About Top 10 Twitter

Updates of 2015

Introduction2015 is about to end so before it

ends, we need to review it and it is the best time to do so.

In 2015, Twitter also introduced lots of features. It is quite hard to get all the information about all these features from one place.

In this presentation, we have explained 2015’s top 10 Twitter updates.

Retweet with comment of 140+ charactersUsing this new feature, you can retweet any tweet with comment.

Interesting thing about this feature is that, you can add your own comment of 140+ characters to a retweet. But there is a catch, when someone retweet your tweet with comment, it does not consider as a retweet.

Twitter Recap: ‘While you were away…’Twitter will show you some of the best

tweets from accounts you follow in your Twitter feed when you login.

These tweets might be posted by followed accounts after your last logout and before your current login.

Using this new feature, you can get a quick snapshot of what is happening in your Twitter world.

Easy to Use Direct Messages Twitter made some major changes in how you use direct messages.

you can receive direct messages from anyone by changing some settings. You can also reply to anyone who sends you a Direct Message, regardless of whether or not that person follows you.

Twitter also removed character limit of 140 characters from Direct Messages.

Twitter team up with GoogleTwitter team up with Google to show some of the best Twitter’s real-time content into Google search result pages.

You can directly search about your favorite topic in Google and find out most recent tweets about the same in Google itself.

You can tap on a Tweet in Google search to view the Tweet and discover additional content in Twitter.

Image Credit: Forbes

Easy to Follow ConversationsSometimes, it’s hard to follow so many conversations around one tweet.

From now onwards, You can find out grouped conversations and highlighted exchanges right below the Tweet connected by a line.

You can also see more replies on specific Tweet within a conversation.

Image Credit: Twitter

Introduction of Autoplay VideosThis feature is almost same as Facebook Videos. Videos and GIFs begin to play back automatically in the feed.

When you tap the video, sound will turn on and the video will continue to play in an expanded view.

So ultimately less taps are required to see video of your choice.

Add Birthdate to Twitter ProfileNow, you can add your birthdate to your twitter profile. To do so, just click on “Edit Profile” button from your twitter profile.

This feature is also more or less inspired from Facebook but the major difference is that it is optional to add your birthdate to your Twitter profile.

You can also separately manage visibility settings of your birth day/month and birth year.

Introduction of New DashboardTwitter has introduced new dashboard to effectively manage & monitor your account.

Using this new dashboard ‘Twitter Data Dashboard’, Twitter user can able to do manage number of settings related to his/her account.

Just look at the given image of new Twitter Data Dashboard. Now it’s very easy to manage all types of settings from one place using this new Dashboard.

Introduction of PollsNow, users can create polls on Twitter with just few taps.

Lots of People are comparing Twitter Polls with Google+ Polls and we are also partially agree with them.

Only major difference is that in Twitter Polls, you can’t add media files while in Google+ Polls, you can add media files if you want.

Stars became HeartsTwitter has replaced star icon with heart icon. Also, Favorites have been called as Likes.

Favorites was the feature which distinguish Twitter from its major competitors like Facebook and Google+.

As per the Twitter, stars could be confusing sometimes for new users as all your liked things can’t be your favorite.

In their tests, Twitter found that people loved it.

Image Credit: The Verge

Stars became Hearts (Continued….)But the reaction of users tell the different story as most of the Twitter users don’t like conversation of stars into Hearts.

You can find reactions of users in conversations of Twitter’s official Tweet.

This feature can be considered as most heartbreaking Twitter feature of 2015 for Twitter users.

Image Credit: TheVerge

Image Credit: Twitter

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