Twitter Currently Testing 'Save for Later' Bookmark Feature
Twitter developers have built a prototype for a "save for later" bookmark feature that will hopefully let users save posts for reference later. For now, Twitter users have saved posts for later by liking or retweeting them, but this highly anticipated new feature could help readers get back to the post they want faster.
This simple functionality has been one that Twitter fans have been bugging the social media platform about for some time now, as Twitter product manager Jesar Shah noted in their announcement.
"Hi Twitter! Many of you (especially in Japan!) have said you'd like to be able to easily + privately save Tweets for later," Shah noted in her caption.
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"Right now, people bookmark Tweets by liking, DM-ing to themselves, or Retweeting. But this could be easier," she added, before linking to moments page for the new feature.
The developers behind this new functionality put together their prototype during Twitter's annual Hack Week event, which resulted in this new feature. While the update is still in active development and will likely see a few changes before it goes live, the new feature looks like it will replace the "send via DM" icon on the bottom right corner of tweets.
That corner will instead hold a short menu that will give users access to both the "share via DM" and the new "Add to Bookmark" options, as Engadget notes. For now, all bookmarked tweets are listed out in an option under settings.
Twitter's new announcement suggests that users will no longer have to deal with workarounds such as liking tweets, sharing them via DMs or retweeting them just to get those posts in an easily accessible place.
As shown in the clip below shared by Shah in a later post, saving a post to read later will soon take just two taps of the screen. "For Hack Week @Twitter we started developing #SaveForLater. Here's the early prototype that we put together in a week, which is likely to change," as the Twitter team described their prototype.