X is including one other method to view expanded interplay with X posts, with a brand new “View quotes” fast hyperlink throughout the decrease perform bar choices on updates.
As you may see on this instance, some X customers are actually seeing a brand new “View quotes” within the expanded put up view within the app.
That’ll offer you one other method to see how a put up is being mentioned by folks past the direct replies, reasonably than having to faucet the re-post icon itself.
Which is a small replace, and not likely an enormous useful change. However X’s not too long ago appointed head of product Nikita Bier says that this new entry level will assist to “floor a number of the finest content material” within the app.
Bier has been tasked with uncovering new methods to encourage engagement within the app, making use of his data of viral dynamics to X’s long-standing UI.
As a result of regardless of Elon and Co.’s many proclamations of many modifications 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 workforce isn’t enhancing the app. The now a lot smaller X workforce (after Musk’s workers cull) is delivery smaller tweaks and modifications at a strong fee. However in a broader sense, I don’t really feel like utilizing X is admittedly any totally different from when it was Twitter.
Although it’s now a “video first” app. Although Elon is “reworking the worldwide city sq..”
Musk’s “all the pieces app” imaginative and prescient may nonetheless be coming, with funds on the middle of a revised X UI. However at this stage, many 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 perhaps, then Nikita Bier, having constructed a number of of his personal trending apps, can change issues up.
Up to now, 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
After all, there’s possible far more inner initiatives that Bier can also be concerned with, however when it comes to public-facing updates, these are the modifications that we’ve seen to this point in his first weeks on the app.
Possibly, extra important UI modifications are coming, and perhaps, all of those smaller updates are cumulatively delivering a larger-scale enchancment in total engagement and utilization.
The brand new “View quotes” choice is at present in testing on iOS.
