Twitter adjustments its ‘Share’ button to the WhatsApp icon for some customers in India
Twitter is thought to make adjustments to its platform’s person interface, like most social media platforms will do sooner or later to maintain the UI up to date with instances and newer utilization habits. However, typically the adjustments don’t get the anticipated suggestions and are rolled again. Twitter’s newest change, at the moment within the testing part, might be the platform’s subsequent characteristic to fulfill blended reactions.
Earlier this week, Twitter modified the looks of its share-button for a lot of customers in India. The share icon, initially formed like an arrow, now seems like a WhatsApp icon. While this might lead you to suppose it’s a shortcut to share tweets instantly on WhatsApp, the preferred messaging app within the nation, that isn’t the case.
a few of you would possibly see a WhatsApp Share icon and should you do, tell us what you suppose pic.twitter.com/Y23vWUPTs1
— Twitter India (@TwitterIndia) September 8, 2022
The share button merely seems just like the WhatsApp icon. It nonetheless features precisely just like the previous share button, opening the identical share menu from the place you may share the tweet in your Twitter DMs or by way of different apps together with WhatsApp, Instagram, and so forth.
The change would have really been helpful as a direct share button to WhatsApp, or if it made WhatsApp the first shortcut within the share menu that seems. However, it does neither of these. The Twitter India deal with does point out that the characteristic is only a check for now, which mainly implies that this alteration might be momentary.
Twitter has rolled again its UI adjustments earlier than
Earlier this yr in March, Twitter rolled out one other change which had customers scratching their heads. Instead of seeing the feed and tweets in an ordered, chronological method, customers would as a substitute see ‘top’ tweets first. in the meantime, if customers needed the chronological view, they have been pressured to maneuver to a separate tab on the fitting.
We heard you –– a few of you all the time wish to see newest Tweets first. We’ve switched the timeline again and eliminated the tabbed expertise for now whereas we discover different choices. https://t.co/euVcPr9ij6
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 14, 2022
Naturally, the change acquired wide-criticism and Twitter was pressured to roll it again and produce the app to its default feed on March 15, simply 4 days days after the change was introduced on March 11.
