Twitter wants to show conversations in tree structure and add emojis

Twitter is working on a different way to display conversations on the platform. They would be structured more like a tree, similar to how Reddit, for example, now displays threads. Twitter also wants to use emojis as a response option.

A test version of such tree threads appeared in the Twttr app for iOS, an official beta testing app for the iPhone in which Twitter tests new functions more often. Meanwhile, some users also get to see the threads in the web version of the platform. This is evident from a screenshot of Jane Manchun Wong. are more likely to find early features of new social media platforms. The screenshot shows how reactions to a tweet are no longer aligned straight below each other, but shift as a tree structure. Gray lines also show which tweets are a response to other tweets.

Twitter is also said to be working on a way to add emojis to comments on tweets. When a user does a quote tweet or posts a comment, he automatically gets a suggestion for a certain emoji. For example, if someone chooses a negative emoji, Twitter asks if the user wants to say why he does not agree with a message. A Twitter product manager describes the changes to Buzzfeed. The experiment with the emojis should start within two weeks.

Twitter hopes the new display will bring order to the platform’s often seen as confusing UX. The service is often criticized for being too complicated for new users. They would understand the difference between comments, quote tweets, likes and retweets less easily. With the emojis, Twitter hopes that users will think better before responding. “We have serious plans to change the way conversations flow on Twitter,” the product manager told Buzzfeed.