Twitter tests a cleaner interface for threaded conversations


Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitter is showing some iOS and web users a new interface to make it easier to follow threaded conversations, the company has announced . A gif published by Twitter’s Support account shows the new test interface in action, with lines and indents making it much easier to see who’s responding to who in a Twitter thread. The functionality first came to Twitter’s prototype app twttr last year, and builds upon the iOS update released back in January.
The changes are an attempt to make back and forth conversations “easier to read and follow,” according to the company. Current Twitter conversations can quickly become crowded and difficult to understand, especially when dozens of users are responding to each individual tweet in a conversation....

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