Twitter is working on a characteristic that will allow Android users to choose text from a tweet. This feature has been obtainable to iOS users for a while now. It will finally be pushing its way to Android.
Android users did find ways to bypass the limitation by using the built-in Overview feature that allows them to select text from any screen while not officially available.
However, android expert Mishaal Rahman pointed out that while the part exists, it isn’t available to all Android users.
Twitter has been rapidly counting new features to the platform for the last few years. In 2021, it said Birdwatch, an initiative that lets users tag misleading tweets, add voice notes, aid for 4K image uploads, introduced Spaces, a rival to Clubhouse, and launched a new subscription service called Twitter Blue, among others.
In 2022, the platform has been busier than ever, testing a new composer bar, improvements to Communities that allow users to easily share them with others, reaction videos for a tweet, and the ability to search for a chat or conversation within direct messages.
Tweets are publicly observable by default, but senders can restrict message delivery to only their followers. Users can mute users they do not expect to interact with, block accounts from viewing their tweets, and extract accounts from their followers’ lists.
Users can tweet through the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as smartphones), or Short Message Service (SMS) obtainable in specific countries.
The counters for “likes,” “retweets,” and replies seem next to the respective switches in timelines, like on profile pages and search outcomes. Counters for likes and retweets exist on a tweet’s standalone page too. Since September 2020, quote tweets, formerly known as “retweet with the comment,” have their counter on their tweet page.
Until the legacy desktop front end that was discontinued in 2020, a row with miniature profile photos of up to ten liking or retweeting users was displayed and a tweet reply counter next to the according button on a tweet’s page.