X is including one other technique to view expanded interplay with X posts, with a new “View quotes” fast hyperlink throughout the decrease perform bar choices on updates.
As you possibly can see on this instance, some X customers are actually seeing a brand new “View quotes” within the expanded publish view within the app.
That’ll offer you one other technique to see how a publish is being mentioned by folks past the direct replies, somewhat than having to faucet the re-post icon itself.
Which is a small replace, and not likely an enormous purposeful change. However X’s lately appointed head of product Nikita Bier says that this new entry level will assist to “floor a few of the greatest content material” within the app.
Bier has been tasked with uncovering new methods to encourage engagement within the app, making use of his information of viral dynamics to X’s long-standing UI.
As a result of regardless of Elon and Co.’s many proclamations of many adjustments on the app since he took over again in 2022, actually, the X person expertise is just about the identical because it’s at all times been.
That’s to not say that the X crew isn’t enhancing the app. The now a lot smaller X crew (after Musk’s workers cull) is delivery smaller tweaks and adjustments at a stable charge. However in a broader sense, I don’t really feel like utilizing X is de facto any completely different from when it was Twitter.
Despite the fact that it’s now a “video first” app. Despite the fact that Elon is “remodeling the worldwide city sq..”
Musk’s “all the things app” imaginative and prescient may nonetheless be coming, with funds on the middle of a revised X UI. However at this stage, a lot of the X updates are pretty minor, which is what Twitter had additionally been criticized for within the years earlier than Elon bought the app.
So possibly, then Nikita Bier, having constructed a number of of his personal trending apps, can change issues up.
To date, Bier has:
- Up to date screenshot sharing of X posts
- Fastened a long-standing bug associated to the timeline refreshing at random
- Expanded the size of cashtags
- Up to date the method for speaking with @grok
In fact, there’s doubtless far more inner initiatives that Bier can also be concerned with, however by way of public-facing updates, these are the adjustments that we’ve seen up to now in his first weeks on the app.
Perhaps, extra important UI adjustments are coming, and possibly, all of those smaller updates are cumulatively delivering a larger-scale enchancment in general engagement and utilization.
The brand new “View quotes” possibility is at the moment in testing on iOS.
