Twitter, the American online microblogging and social networking service has confirmed its plans to provide users with more context citing reasons why a tweet could be unavailable in a conversation.
In a tweet posted by their support team, they want to eliminate such issues where you see many blank walls in conversations always reading “This Tweet is unavailable” without providing further reasons.
We're fixing the issue where you see so many "This Tweet is unavailable" notices in conversations. This is usually due to deleted or protected Tweets, or muted keywords.
In a few weeks, you'll start seeing more context on each notice to help explain why Tweets are unavailable. https://t.co/0iW8Eclwvg
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 18, 2019
There are several reasons why a tweet in a conversation could be missing or unavailable, including that a tweet has been deleted, it belongs to a private account, it has been taken down due to policy violation or the fact that it contains muted keywords.
Though its Twitter account, the company assured their clients that in the next few weeks it will introduce more context option on each notice that content is unavailable in conversations to help users know why the content is unavailable at that given time.
Following the successful implementation of the new feature, users will then be able to understand why a tweet is unavailable in a conversation hence helping to reduce any form of confusion that might arise when tweets are missing without obvious reasons.
At around the same time, the company was also testing another unique feature that would enable users to hide replies in their conversations, they said that the experience will be available to everyone in the world but at the moment, only those in Canada can hide replies in their conversations.
Alongside these changes, Twitter is also experimenting on more updates such as how they can have profile picture icons on replies so as to offer more information in Twitter conversation threads, people tagged in the original tweet are labeled with a small “@” symbol for example, while the original poster has a small microphone symbol shown on their profile picture when they reply to their tweets.
At the moment, customization seems to be an ongoing process for the giant social network company and users should expect more of the new features as they come.
