Twitter asks customers to share tweets as a substitute of screenshotting

Twitter has gone by way of some modifications not too long ago — and that is excluding all of the Elon Musk information. Modifying tweets is now a actuality for paid Twitter Blue customers, for one, and now you can ship blended media tweets too. What’s extra, is that some Twitter customers see prompts once they screenshot tweets asking to as a substitute share or copy hyperlinks to tweets.

Whereas some Mashable reporters do not see any immediate when screenshotting but, others see this:

The immediate stays up for a number of seconds. Social media marketing consultant Matt Navarra seen particular person prompts for “Copy hyperlink” and “Share Tweets” as effectively:

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Copying the hyperlink is self-explanatory, and “share tweet” has the identical operate because the share icon on any tweet; when you click on it, you’ll DM the tweet, share to a neighborhood, bookmark it, or share it by way of messages or one other social app.

It is easy to grasp why Twitter needs customers to share tweets versus screenshotting. For one, you’d keep on the app longer — or ship a hyperlink so another person can spend time on Twitter. The extra time one spends on Twitter, the extra promoted tweets and adverts they see.

In the event you screenshot a tweet and publish it on one other social media app, Twitter will not revenue from it.

For customers, nevertheless, screenshotting makes plenty of sense. You possibly can simply share tweets wherever, particularly if somebody you already know would not have a Twitter account. By screenshotting, you additionally reduce off engagement on a probably dangerous tweet and reduce its unfold. Screenshots are additionally essential for posterity; even when the tweet is later deleted, or if Twitter itself implodes sooner or later, the screenshots are everlasting.

So, no, really, we would moderately not ‘Share Tweet’ as a substitute. We’ll simply hold screenshotting.