Twitter continues to launch improvements with which it tries to respond to the wishes and requests of the user community, who are looking for the arrival of new functions and features that encourage them even more when using the social network.
Being always aware of user requests, although its updates are not very frequent, Twitter has decided to launch a demand that has been coming for a long time and is to launch reactions in emoji for direct messages that are sent through the service messaging system integrated into the application itself, so that you can react to a message sent by another user with a smiley face, a heart, a surprised face, or a finger pointing up or down, among others.
The main reason why Twitter has decided to include reactions in the form of emojis is the constant request by users and especially considering that emojis are present in the vast majority of the main social networks and messaging services , being already an essential communication element for users, who resort to its use on a regular basis to express with an icon what goes beyond words and also save the use of some of them.
This new functionality is very interesting, since these messaging platforms also allow reacting to messages to also strengthen engagement, so important for businesses or companies but also for private users when communicating with other peers. Twitter has a great interest in improving the user experience and making each user enjoy the best possible user experience, as well as enjoying better conversations with their friends and acquaintances.
After updating the social network, the user can react in an easy and simple way to the direct messages received through the social platform using the different existing reactions, either by clicking or tapping the heart-shaped icon that appears next to received messages.
Once you click on the heart icon, a list with the available emojis will appear in order to react. Keep in mind that in this first phase the available emojis in the form of reactions are limited to seven (crying face with laughter, surprised face, sad face, heart, flame of fire, thumbs up and thumbs down). In the event that you decide to react to the message that someone else has sent you, the recipient will receive a notification that will indicate that you have reacted to the message that has been sent to you.
In the event that he is using an older version of the application or browser, instead of receiving the reaction as such, he will receive a response that will indicate what you have sent him as a reaction to his comment or message.
It is possible to add a reaction to received messages regardless of the time that has elapsed between the time it was sent and the time it is sent, so you can react to any message you need at the time you want .
This option had been tested in a beta version of your application for some time and is now available to users of the platform. However, you must bear in mind that, as with other improvements and updates, these are coming progressively, so it may be the case that you still have to wait a while for the new functionality to be available in your account, although in this case it does not usually take too long.
Twitter has also been trying to place the reactions in the tweets themselves, although the experience has not been entirely positive in the opinion of those responsible for the development of the social network, who have preferred that, at least for the moment, not see the light, and its application is limited to use in the case of instant messaging services integrated into the social application itself, not in tweets.
In this way, the social network continues to receive improvements, although in this social network these usually arrive in drops and updates are not as frequent as in other social platforms such as Instagram, where new functions are constantly being launched or improvements are made. existing features, this being very well received in any case by the users of the community, who are always looking for new improvements and features that allow them to enjoy their experience on these platforms even more.
The Twitter user community has received very positively the arrival of reactions for direct messages, since in this way they will be able to use emojis so that they form part of their conversations and be able to react in a more expressive and quick way to other people's comments when having different conversations with other people through Twitter.
With this small but interesting improvement, Twitter tries to encourage users to make greater use of its integrated instant messaging service, which has hardly received any improvements despite the fact that it is one of the wishes of many users, who consider that Twitter should focus part of its efforts on improving this service despite the fact that the main purpose of the social network is based on the publication of public messages.
However, sometimes it is necessary to have to resort to private messages for different issues and it is an interesting function that has improvements that are focused on improving the user experience when having conversations with other people through of the aforementioned social platform, which remains one of the favorites of millions of users around the world, who resort to its daily use to publish content.