Twitter dumps threaded replies, ditches experimental twttr app

Twitter is eliminating threaded replies simply months after incorporating them into the Twitter app, and into Twitter’s internet portal.

“We asked and you let us know this reply layout wasn’t it, as it was harder to read and join conversations,” the corporate tweeted Thursday.

Intended to make conversations simpler to observe, the threaded reply design included strains that linked a tweet with the responses listed under it. The concept was that it’d make it simpler to inform who was replying to the unique tweet and who was replying to a different reply to that tweet — however customers expressed sufficient frustrations with the change for Twitter to do an about-face.

“The new look made convos harder to read & join — we’re exploring other ways to make this easier,” the corporate stated in a follow-up tweet. Other priorities embrace including extra conversational management, and extra context about who it’s you are partaking with.

In addition, Twitter added that, for now, it is shutting down the experimental prototype model of its app, known as twttr, which was designed to function a proving floor for potential modifications to the principle Twitter app (because it did with threaded replies).

“We appreciate the feedback you gave us through this run of our prototype app twttr,” the corporate tweeted Thursday. “For now we’re turning it off so we can work on new tests to improve the conversation experience on Twitter. 

“If you are utilizing twttr, swap to the principle Twitter app to maintain up with what’s taking place.”