Twitter joins the rest of the applications that allow adding reactions . What Facebook implemented some years ago, now seems to become basic in any application. Of course, for now only for private messages.
How to add reactions on Twitter
Social media reactions have become commonplace in most of them. What Facebook started liked, or many got used to using them and that caused its rapid expansion. Twitter has been one of the last important platforms to welcome it.
sliding into your DMs like 😂 😲 😢 ❤️ 🔥 👍 👎
– Twitter (@Twitter) January 22, 2020
From today, after updating the application, these reactions can already be used in direct Twitter messages . That is, you cannot use them in anything you see on the Timeline, there you will continue with the same FAV and RT options. But in the messages you exchange with other users you can use one of the seven available reactions.
You have three emojis, one crying with laughter, another with a surprised face and a third with a tear. Then there is a heart, a flame and the classic thumbs up and down. If you are a Facebook user you will see that they are practically the same except for the flame.
To make use of these reactions you don’t have to do anything special. When you exchange private messages with other users you will see that next to their messages an icon of a heart appears with the + symbol inside. If you click on you will see the seven reactions mentioned above appear. Double click on the one you want to use and that’s it.
Say more with new emoji reactions for Direct Messages!
To add a reaction, click the ❤️➕ icon that appears when you hover over the message on web or double tap the message on mobile and select an emoji from the pop-up.
For more about DM reactions: https://t.co/sdMumGDBYl https://t.co/QxMVmGt8eY
– Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 22, 2020
In each message you will see the reactions and a number that indicates how many have had that message. What is striking is that you only see the last icon. And by the way, if you send one of these reactions to a user who has an earlier version of the Twitter app for iOS and Android that does not support its use, what they will receive is a text message with the icon . This is good to know, so you know what the subject is about if you get something like that.
For the rest, little to add to a functionality that will be who will use and who directly ignores how until now it has been doing in each and every one of the networks and applications that offered them. In the end it is just an extra way to interact with the content they send us, texts or multimedia.
Perhaps, in some private Twitter groups it may make sense to use reactions, as it helps not to “dirty” the conversation with so many extra messages. But that since each one values it as it is used or not.
