I’m not exactly sure what it has to do with the small tweet information that Elon Musk thinks will certainly transform the manner in which individuals view tweets, yet he appears rather concentrated on offering customers an increasing number of context concerning exactly how their tweets are shared, or otherwise, in the hopes that it will certainly set off even more passion in tweeting more frequently.
Twitter’s most recent upgrade on this front is a new display of tweet bookmarks within the information present – i.e. the listing of tweet details you see when you touch via to broaden a tweet.
As you can see in this instance from reverse design specialist Jane Manchun Wong, you’ll currently have a lot more metrics included in the reduced line of your tweet, to ensure that you can see:
- Complete retweets
- Complete quote tweets
- Complete sort
- Complete book markings
There’s additionally the tweet sight matter, which Twitter turned out in December, and also was additionally originally added onto completion of that reduced stat line, prior to Twitter upgraded the layout in January, due to the fact that it looked also cumbersome such as this:

Today it’s included book markings to the display screen anyhow – which appears rather chaotic, and also actually, not especially important as a stat. Though even more information is constantly far better. Possibly there’s some understanding to be amassed from each various aspect.
So why is Twitter including a book markings respond to in all?
Well, once more, Twitter 2.0 primary Elon Musk appears persuaded that by supplying even more context regarding exactly how individuals connect with tweets, that will certainly make individuals extra likely to share more frequently.
Back in December, Elon tweeted that he really felt the book markings feature had actually been concealed behind an ‘obscure UI’, which had most likely quit lots of customers from using it. He after that pledged to make book markings a larger aspect, while additionally wanting to include book markings into each tweet’s like count.
Yes, that will certainly be included an approaching launch. Likewise, if your tweet is bookmarked, it will certainly be dealt with as a “silent like” and also increment your sort counter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 20, 2023
It appeared that Elon was attempting to improve book markings as a choice to sort – due to the fact that occasionally there could be material that you’re interested in analysis, yet you don’t always intend to ‘such as’ because of this.
However, counting book markings as ‘silent sort’ suggests that you’re efficiently magnifying that material in either case, which rather negates the alternating capability disagreement.
I’m not completely certain what the inspiration is, now, you’ll have extra context regarding exactly how individuals are connecting with your tweets, and also possibly, in future, book markings will certainly be used differently to determine mathematical reach.
Or something. I don’t recognize – all I recognize without a doubt is that book markings currently have their very own counter. Sometimes, that might be an intriguing information factor.










