INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Twitter is testing out a couple of new features that may or may not make their way out to everyone on the social network: online status
indicators, so you can see who's online, and threaded replies to tweets, to make them easier to read on screen.Announced by both director
feedback on how they work, and they might well change form before they're finished (if they ever get introduced at all).According to Haider,
the online status indicators are a way "to signal specifically that you're online and looking for conversation" as opposed to, say, being in
Presumably, you'll be able to turn this off if you don't like it.Testing, testing, 1-2-3Twitter is of course testing new features all the
time, and they don't all make it to the platform
Most recently, engineers have been playing around with suggesting accounts that you might want to unfollow, which seems a bit
anti-social.There's also the ongoing battle to fight trolls and abuse that Twitter management have to deal with, in the middle of rolling
Most recently, Twitter had an account purge to remove about a million accounts a day run by bots and shady users
It doesn't sound like the great Twitter clean up of 2018 is finished yet, either.With the online status and threaded reply options only
whether or not these features are going to be properly added to Twitter.
