Twitter is testing a co-tweeting feature

Currently available for select accounts in the U.S., Canada and Korea.
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Meera Navlakha
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The Twitter icon with a tweet imposed onto it, showing the co-tweet feature.
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Twitter is testing a Co-Tweet feature, as per mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi and social media consultant Matt Navarra. Twitter later confirmed the news.

The two posted a test tweet, where both their usernames are displayed and clickable above the written content. The two author names don't seem to show up with embedded tweets just yet, as you can see below.

Paluzzi has been tweeted about the development of the collaborative feature since December 2021, showing followers the evolution of the tool. He said it is not officially available just yet.

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According to the tweets, users can send an invite to "co-tweet," which the invitee can subsequently accept or decline. Essentially, a user can't just add another person to a tweet without permission. If accepted, the written tweet will apparently show on both users' timelines.

These invites show up in the notifications tab or in DMs. Navarra posted a screenshot which shows a pop-up message from Twitter, displaying the CoTweet request and also adding the stipulation that "you can remove yourself anytime" from the tweet.

Twitter reached out to Mashable and said that the feature would be available for a limited time for "select accounts in the U.S., Canada and Korea". In a blog post by the company, Twitter explained that only two authors can write a tweet together.

The social media app also said that the temporary test is taking place in order to gauge "how and why people and brands might use a feature like this".

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Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture Reporter at Mashable. 


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