Twitter Releases New Features "Highlights" That Tells Only Tweets of Topics Totally Featured

A new function that Twitter notifies tweets that are deemed important to each user collectivelyHighlightsWe released the release of. Using this feature seems to reduce the possibility of missing an important tweet that tends to be buried in the tweets that are pushing one after another.

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The Highlights feature newly announced by Twitter with the aim of "to maximize the use of Twitter regardless of the length of time spent" is a function that will be newly available in the Android version application. As in the image movie introduced in the following Twitter official account, some people automatically select multiple ones that have topicality or high importance from among tweets flowing in large quantities, You can check it one after another with the screen swipe.

Introducing Highlights. Get the best of Twitter every day, sent to your Android device:https://t.co/9ZUWgX9lcCPic.twitter.com/sYuu7YUO4D

- Twitter (@ twitter)2015, April 23

When this function is turned on, Twitter is a tweet of tweets of accounts that each user is following, the contents of actual interactions with each account, tweets of people who are close to you, the area or network the user is at that time We analyze information such as topics, events and people who are excited inside, pick up what seems to be suitable for the user.

And it will be able to notify me twice a day twice a day for the application of smartphone. The following image shows the state of push notification from the left, and the state that the story which is becoming a popular tweet or trend is displayed. Each tweet can swipe the screen left or right to read one after another, and if you swipe further after it reaches the very end, the normal timeline will be displayed.


In this way, Highlights seems to be a useful function for users who have infiltrated information one after another and are often overlooked. However, it is only the user who is using the Twitter application installed in the Android terminal in English, turning on the function, which is the subject of the new function at the time of writing the articleOpt-inYou need to do. The setting itself is possible with the Japanese version application as follows, but it was unknown at the time of article creation whether the function can be actually used or not.

In the Twitter application for Android, tap the setting icon in the upper right.


Tap "Settings".


Tap the account name you want to opt in.


Tap "Mobile notification".


Scroll down the screen and check the "Highlight" box.


This completes the opt-in operation. In fact it seems that it will be a while before the function can be used in Japanese, but it seems to be a useful function especially for heavy users of Twitter.