You can now also send audio via Twitter

New feature allows some iOS users to send audio via Twitter in their publications

In an attempt to make it easier for people to comment in real time on everything they’re feeling, the Twitter announced on Wednesday (17) a new resource for the social network: audio tweets, which will allow users, instead of writing texts, to simply record and publish a audio fur Twitter in their profiles.

This function is in the testing phase and, for now, it will be available to only a few users who use the version for iOS of the application, but the company has already warned that in the coming weeks it will be available to all users who have a cell phone from Apple. So far, nothing has been said about when the novelty reaches the devices Android.

How to send an audio via Twitter

According to Twitter, send a voice tweet as simple as any text tweet. Thus, users who use the iOS app and who were chosen to be part of this initial test, when choosing to write a new tweet through the app, will notice that a new button appeared at the bottom of the screen (just above the virtual keyboard used for write the tweet) and that has a symbol that looks like a sound wave.

audio twitter On the screen of writing a tweet, it will be possible to find a sound wave button, which is what should be selected for sending audio (Image: Twitter)

When pressing this button, the user will be taken to a new screen, with a button to start recording the audio. just press it and say everything you want to say, and when you have finished what you have to say just press the Finish button at the top right of the screen and you will send the audio via Twitter.

audio twitter s click on the button to record, say what you need and then finish to send the tweet with audio (Image: Twitter)

According to Twitter, each message supports a recording of up to 140s (or two minutes and twenty seconds), but those who like to talk on their elbows need not worry: if yours audio exceed the time limit, the application will automatically split it up to 140s, which will be posted one after another as if they were part of the same thread.

Also interesting is the fact that these udios they do not need to be the exclusive content of your tweet, and it is possible to write a text message with the 280 characters allowed and send a recording of up to 140s in the same tweet, which should increase the amount of content that each one can contain.

audio twitter New feature allows you to send 280 characters plus 140s of audio in a single tweet (Image: Twitter)

The expectation that the possibility of inserting a audio within the tweet can increase the debate of important causes by Twitter, allowing to give more nuance to opinions that are too complex to develop only in text format and in only 280 characters at a time.

Polemic function

Despite the initiative to allow the insertion of audio by Twitter to be part of a plan to improve the quality of information shared by the platform, the measure was not as well accepted as another recent announcement, that the Twitter would start asking users if they really want to share an article without first clicking on the link to read it.

In the post responses of the account Twitter revealing the novelty, it is possible to see many criticisms and complaints regarding the new tool, with some people complaining that what they wanted was to send audio via DM and not like that, while others remember that something that the community has been asking for a tool for editing tweets for years .

On the timeline in general, it is also possible to see that the new feature is being viewed by many users in a very negative way, with people threatening to stop following anyone who begins to rule udios by the platform or judging what the Twitter considers it a priority resource.

And, with Brazil being Brazil, concerns began to arise about the real problem of this tool: the possibility of a revival of the “groan of Zap” in itself Twitter – and some people even said that this fear has already become something real.

Source: Twitter