X Tests Alternative Way To View Quote Posts

X is including one other approach to view expanded interplay with X posts, with a brand new “View quotes” fast hyperlink throughout the decrease operate bar choices on updates.

As you possibly can see on this instance, some X customers at the moment are seeing a brand new “View quotes” within the expanded publish view within the app.

That’ll provide you with one other approach to see how a publish is being mentioned by folks past the direct replies, slightly than having to faucet the re-post icon itself.

Which is a small replace, and not likely a large purposeful change. However X’s not too long ago appointed head of product Nikita Bier says that this new entry level will assist to “floor among the greatest 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 adjustments on the app since he took over again in 2022, actually, the X consumer expertise is just about the identical because it’s at all times been.  

That’s to not say that the X group isn’t enhancing the app. The now a lot smaller X group (after Musk’s workers cull) is delivery smaller tweaks and adjustments at a stable price. However in a broader sense, I don’t really feel like utilizing X is actually any completely different from when it was Twitter.

Although it’s now a “video first” app. Although Elon is “remodeling the worldwide city sq..”

Musk’s “the whole lot app” imaginative and prescient would possibly 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.

Thus far, 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 be concerned with, however when it comes to public-facing updates, these are the adjustments that we’ve seen to this point in his first weeks on the app.

Possibly, extra vital UI adjustments 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” possibility is at the moment in testing on iOS.