Twitter tests switch button for tweet order: Here's why

Twitter is again fiddling with your tweets. The company has announced that it is testing out a new tool which will let you switch the order your tweets in your feed. The company made the announcement through its official Twitter handle, saying that the new switch will be tested first on iOS and will allow users to switch the timeline between the latest and top tweets.

The simple switch will be available for a small number of iOS users and will be located on the top right. By tapping on it once, you will be able to see which version of the feed you are at, and will be able to switch between top tweets or latest tweets easily. 

Now, irrespective of which modified emoji you use, it will be counted equally towards Twitter's total character limit of 280. Previously, Twitter would count modified emoji, based on gender and skin tone, as higher in characters than the default ones. 

Now, as part of its latest update, Twitter announced through its developer forum that it will count all emoji equally, including the ones with gender and skin tone modifiers, leaving room for users to express more liberally. It was last year that Twitter increased its original character limit of 140 to 280 characters.

Twitter is killing the ability for its users to create Moments - a series of their favourite tweets in a story format - from their iOS or Android apps. The company made the announcement through its official Twitter Support handle, acknowledging the feature was not being used much by its users.

With inputs from ANI