Elon Musk announces ‘Twitter Highlights’ feature for bird app. How to use it?

Through this feature, Twitter users can effectively bring specific tweets to the forefront and ensure their prominence.

The newly introduced feature on Twitter bears similarity to Instagram’s feature, where users can add their Instagram stories as Highlights on their profiles.

In a tweet shared by Doge Designer and retweeted by Elon Musk, it is mentioned that the Highlights Tab is now available on Twitter. Users have the ability to exhibit their preferred tweets on their profiles.

To add a tweet to highlights, simply locate the tweet you wish to emphasize, click on the three dots positioned at the top right corner of the tweet, and choose the option labeled ‘Add/remove from highlights.’

Meanwhile, Twitter may soon get a video app for smart TVs. Responding to a user query on the platform, Twitter owner Elon Musk has confirmed that the app is ‘coming.’

On Twitter, a user with an account name S-M Robinson said, “We really need a Twitter video app for Smart TVs. I’m not watching an hour-long video on Twitter.” To which Musk replied, “It’s coming.”

After which the user tweeted, “Appreciate it. I can see a day where I can cancel my subscription to YouTube, and never look at it again.”

Elon Musk is making several changes on Twitter and one of them is where social media is likely to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships, New York Post reported, citing Reuters.

Earlier, Musk said that Twitter will soon start paying creators for ads served in their replies with a payment block of USD five million.

“In a few weeks, X/Twitter will start paying creators for ads served in their replies. The first block payment totals USD 5M. Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count,” Musk tweeted on Saturday.

Updated: 19 Jun 2023, 03:28 PM IST