X is including one other approach to view expanded interplay with X posts, with a brand new “View quotes” fast hyperlink inside the decrease perform bar choices on updates.
As you may see on this instance, some X customers at the moment are seeing a brand new “View quotes” within the expanded put up view within the app.
That’ll offer you one other approach to see how a put up is being mentioned by folks past the direct replies, fairly than having to faucet the re-post icon itself.
Which is a small replace, and probably not a large useful change. However X’s lately 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 information 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 consumer expertise is just about the identical because it’s all the time been.
That’s to not say that the X workforce isn’t bettering the app. The now a lot smaller X workforce (after Musk’s workers cull) is delivery smaller tweaks and modifications at a strong price. However in a broader sense, I don’t really feel like utilizing X is basically any completely different from when it was Twitter.
Though it’s now a “video first” app. Though Elon is “remodeling the worldwide city sq..”
Musk’s “every thing 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 possibly, then Nikita Bier, having constructed a number of of his personal trending apps, can change issues up.
To this point, 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 seemingly far more inside tasks that Bier can be concerned with, however by way of public-facing updates, these are the modifications that we’ve seen to this point in his first weeks on the app.
Perhaps, extra vital UI modifications 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” choice is at the moment in testing on iOS.
