Twitter Considers New Option to Set a Reminder on Individual Tweets

This appears a little mean-spirited – although unintentionally, I’d assume.

Right this moment, Twitter designer Andrea Conway has shared a new mock-up of a potential performance that might allow customers to set a notification to be reminded of a particular tweet, wherever from an hour to a yr prematurely.

Which could possibly be helpful, as there’s a vary of cases the place somebody, say, tweets one thing about a sports activities crew or occasion, and you may want to hold tabs on that for later reference.

The place it feels a little jilted is that there are already providers like this on Twitter, through automated bot accounts, created by third-party builders, like ‘Remind Me of This Tweet’.

By way of Remind Me of This Tweet, customers can merely point out the related Twitter deal with, together with a timeframe, and the bot account will notify you of that tweet at a future level of your selecting.

Which is the very same performance that Twitter’s now wanting to probably make a native course of – which it really may need to, as a result of with Twitter’s recently announced API changes, which is able to drastically increase the price of access, most of a majority of these instruments are going to go extinct, as a result of they merely can’t afford the brand new charges.

As such, it appears a little like rubbing salt within the wound, that as these apps are being priced out of existence, Twitter is including them as ‘new’ performance.

On the similar time, many Twitter customers could be unaware that a majority of these third-party instruments are a factor, so making them native features would additionally make them extra universally accessible, seemingly growing their worth general.

So it’s a little from column A and a little from column B, however it does really feel a little off.

I’m wondering what number of different third-party Twitter features the corporate may make native as these instruments exit of enterprise – and I’m wondering, then, how that will likely be seen by the dev neighborhood, which has performed a huge function in making Twitter as standard and broadly used as it’s at this time.

Will which have longer-term implications, or will making extra of a majority of these features native be of extra profit than the draw back?

We’ll seemingly discover out, with Twitter’s new API pricing set to come into impact in ‘inside months’.