Twitter announced a new feature for its iOS app which will make it easier for users to see quoted replies to their tweets. The idea was first introduced to Twitter by Nigerian developer, Dara Oladosu’s and his Quoted Replies bot.
The bot makes Twitter users see quoted replies to a tweet. Quoted replies are not normally displayed among the regular Twitter replies.
The developer, Dara was offered a job by Twitter in 2019 after Jack Dorsey and other Twitter bigwigs came to Nigeria and were hosted by Techpoint. Kayvon Beykpour, Product Lead at Twitter and co-founder of Periscope was impressed by Dara’s work that he made a job offer on the spot to help build a native “quoted tweet” feature for Twitter.
The founder of @QuotedReplies just got a job offer with Twitter. The announcement was made at the meeting with media and tech entrepreneurs in Lagos.
Thanks to @Techpointdotng
Congrats Dara!! pic.twitter.com/9jYhQNXGek— Olorisupergal (@OloriSupergal) November 8, 2019
At the time, Dara said; “The bot will most likely die off. Slowly I guess, depending on how quickly the native option for Quoted Replies can be available on Twitter. But I believe the Quoted Replies spin-off apps (built by Hamza Fetuga and Abdulhafeez Sagaya) will continue to be used. They can choose to monetise it how they see fit.”
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Twitter’s native option organizes all of the retweets with comments into a handy list.
To view the Quoted replies, you will have to tap on a tweet, and then tap on “Retweets.”
The retweets are split into two columns. Quoted replies on one hand and on the other hand, a list of retweets with no comment.
Twitter demonstrates the workings of the feature in a tweet:
Don’t miss the Tweets about your Tweet.
Now on iOS, you can see Retweets with comments all in one place. pic.twitter.com/oanjZfzC6y
— Twitter (@Twitter) May 12, 2020
The Verge reports that the feature is only available on Twitter’s iOS app. However, Twitter says it will be coming to the web app and Android in the coming weeks.
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