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Think I finally said my peace last night about tweetstorms, the silly pants-crapping over the 280 character experiment, and blogging.

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WordPress, Jetpack y publicar hilos en Twitter desde el blog

Wordpress permite, a través de su plugin Jetpack, crear automáticamente hilos en Twitter. Pero la implementación es bastante pobre.

Desde hace algunos días Jetpack, el plugin oficial de ampliación de funcionalidades para WordPress, agregó una nueva funcionalidad: crear de manera automática hilos en Twitter a partir del contenido publicado en el blog. Por desgracia, no está muy bien implementado. Y tal como está ahora no parece una buena idea.

Uno de los puntos más criticados tiene que ver con su utilidad: ¿en serio…

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Twitter is going to make third-party apps starting in August

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Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting tweetstorms

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Twitter officially launches ‘threads,’ a new feature for easily posting tweetstorms

Twitter in the present day is saying the launch of a brand new characteristic that can permit individuals to extra simply submit tweetstorms – that’s, these sequence of related tweets which have grown to turn out to be a well-liked workaround for getting previous Twitter’s character depend limitation to be able to share longer ideas. The corporate confirmed final month it was testing the characteristic – which it’s now calling “threads” – throughout its iOS and Android apps.

The tweetstorm format has been used for a very long time on Twitter, initially by a small variety of early adopters, together with a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, who would typically pen the equal of weblog posts utilizing tweets.

The necessity for tweetstorms grew to become extra urgent through the years, as customers frequently bumped up towards Twitter’s 140 character depend restrict – a restriction Twitter not too long ago doubled, forward of in the present day’s launch.

Customers have adopted the tweetstorm for a lot of causes – to inform private, suspenseful or humorous tales through Twitter, to attach details surrounding breaking information, to rant about politics or different points, and even to simply make an extended submit extra readable and simpler to observe.

There at the moment are a whole lot of 1000’s of threads tweeted out each day, notes Twitter.

Regardless of Twitter’s new character restrict of 280, tweetstorms stay in use. The characteristic has basically turn out to be a Twitter conference at this level – and the corporate has a historical past of taking inspiration from its person base in growing new options. The @reply, the hashtag, and the RT have been all launched as official merchandise based mostly on patterns of person conduct, for instance. Now the identical factor is occurring with threads.

The threads characteristic itself is straightforward sufficient to make use of. There’s now a brand new plus (“+”) button within the composer display screen the place you’ll be able to sort out your sequence of tweets.

Every line represents one tweet, with a personality restrict of 280 as per ordinary. You can even add the identical quantity of media – like GIFs, photographs, movies, and extra – to any particular person tweet within the thread, as you would on Twitter straight. While you’re completed with one tweet, you simply faucet within the house beneath to proceed your thread.

Whereas writing out your tweetstorm, you’ll be able to return and edit the tweets at any time as they’re nonetheless in draft format. While you’re able to submit, you faucet the “Tweet all” button on the high to ship the stream to Twitter. (Twitter will tempo the tweets’ posting a bit in order that they don’t all hit without delay.)

As well as, one other useful characteristic permits you to return and replace a thread by including new tweets after it already posted. To take action, you’ll write out the brand new tweet after tapping the “Add one other Tweet” button. This allows you to proceed to replace a thread perpetually – one thing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey already does together with his personal threads, for instance.

Twitter tells us there’s at the moment a restrict of 25 entries in a thread, however that quantity could also be topic to alter relying on how the characteristic is adopted by the broader person base.

The corporate can also be responding to customers’ considerations that by making tweetstorms extra accessible to individuals, the Twitter timeline will turn out to be cluttered with longer posts that decelerate customers’ capacity to rapidly scan by posts, the best way now you can. It says thread from somebody with two or three tweets will seem in your timeline related by a line to differentiate it, however when there are 4 or extra tweets, the thread is truncated.

In that case, you’ll see an choice to “Present this thread.” In case you click on or faucet on this message, the total thread will develop. This permits customers to share their longer tweetstorms, however with out taking up your timeline within the course of.

Twitter says threads will start rolling out in the present day to everybody on iOS, Android and the online, to achieve the total person base over a couple of weeks’ time.

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Twitter now lets you create tweetstorms before tweeting

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Twitter now lets you create tweetstorms before tweeting

A few months after being spotted in tests, Twitter’s tool for creating tweestorms is now an official part of the app. Threads, as the company is calling them, let you string together tweets by tapping a new plus button in the tweet composer.

“A few weeks ago, we expanded our character count to make it easier for people to fit what they’re thinking into a Tweet,” the company said in a blog post. “But we know people also may want to serialize a longer story or thought, or provide ongoing commentary on an event or topic. That’s where this update to threads comes in!”

If you post a thread, the first tweet will appear in the timeline as normal, along with up to two more tweets from the thread. To see the rest, your followers will need to tap “show this thread.”

As the company acknowledged in its blog post, threads are only the latest user-created feature to become official products within the app. It follows the retweet, the @ mention, and the hashtag, among others.

Threads as we know them have been possible ever since 2014, when Twitter began linking replies to originating tweets. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen began threading enthusiastically soon afterward, and some have called him “the father of the tweetstorm.” The form rose to new prominence in the aftermath of the 2016 election, when it became a platform for longer-form discussion of current events.

Twitter says “hundreds of thousands of threads” are posted daily. The need for an official thread feature has been apparent for years: third-party developers have been building apps to thread tweets since at least 2008.

To create a thread using the new feature, type your first tweet and then hit the plus button in the lower right-hand corner of the composer. That brings up a new area within the composer where you’ll have another 280 characters to express yourself. Repeat the process until your thread is complete, and then hit “tweet,” and the entire thread will post all at once. If you want to update a thread later, open it and hit “add another tweet” in the thread.

Threads have both critics and champions. Regardless of what you think, it’s hard to deny that threads have become a literary form unto themselves in the past few years. Whether it’s Eric Garland’s famous “time for some game theory” post-election analysis last year, or this man’s impassioned plea for sex education, memorable tweetstorms use Twitter’s arbitrary constraints to create a certain kind of rhythm. The critics still yell, “Just write a blog post!” And yet — to my eyes, anyway — a good thread has a poetry to it that can’t be replicated in an essay written in standard-length paragraphs.

Threads will be rolling out on Android, iOS, and the web “in the coming weeks,” Twitter said.

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Twitter officially launches tweetstorms new feature ‘threads’

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Twitter confirms it's testing a dedicated tweetstorm feature

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Twitter confirms it's testing a dedicated tweetstorm feature

As if upping its character limit to 280 wasn’t enough, Twitter is testing a dedicated feature to make it easier for users to tweetstorm.

The test first surfaced in September, but Twitter is now confirming the experiment, which is currently live only to people who are part of Twitter’s Experiments Program.

The latest version of the feature, which was spotted by Android Police, allows users to add multiple tweets to a single thread using a new “+” icon in the tweet composer. It’s not clear if it limits you to a specific number of tweets, though it appears each one has the same 280-character limit as the rest of Twitter.

Though tweetstorms have long been commonplace among power users for years, Twitter never made the process particularly intuitive for new users, despite their popularity. (Though Twitter has made some tweaks over the years to make long threads easier to follow.)

But making it an official part of the app would be yet another sign Twitter is ready to help users find ways to use its platform to share thoughts in a more “longform” way than the traditional 140 character limit, which itself was recently doubled.

Of course, Twitter as with every other major tech company, regularly tests new features and not all of them make their way to the public. But given the popularity of tweetstorms as they already exist, and Twitter’s recent commitment to lengthening tweets, it seems that the feature certainly has a good shot at becoming official.