While we are confined to our homes always on social media, Twitter announced that they are now making audio tweets a thing.
This new feature now lets users add voice notes on your tweets as spotted by a number of iOS users. Android users will have to wait for this feature to start rolling out in the coming weeks, sorry.
This feature is a new icon added on the tweet composer window with a purple frequency icon. Tapping on it loads a new window that asks you “What’s happening. hit record” where you can record a voice note to send as a tweet.
It has been received with mixed reactions on Twitter.
really impressive how twitter keeps getting worse
— andrew webster (@A_Webster) June 17, 2020
finally twitter gives us another way to tell them to ban nazis that they won't listen to https://t.co/CbvlwSawH6
— Steven Rich (@dataeditor) June 17, 2020
All we wanted was an edit button. Was that so much to ask? https://t.co/5kmyHQpe7D
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) June 17, 2020
Twitter just launched Audio Tweets. Get dunked on for your voice, not just your ideas! pic.twitter.com/l43UrGCo0s
— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) June 17, 2020
im not sure some of you need easier ways to run your mouths on here https://t.co/o2zkNTmTLi
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) June 17, 2020
This is a very good point and one I would bet Twitter does not have a good answer for https://t.co/cO2YS1ywJe
— David Pierce (@pierce) June 17, 2020
It's insane that Twitter made no mention of how it will stop abuse in audio tweets, considering it can't even safeguard text. Zero foresight. https://t.co/tnXXHEYSqf https://t.co/MMgwRaTx5Q
— Josh Constine -SignalFire (@JoshConstine) June 17, 2020
Please, take this back. No one wanted it. https://t.co/EA1jNlYLbd
— Emma Carew Grovum (@emmacarew) June 17, 2020
Nobody:
Not one single person:
Literally, nobody ever:
Twitter: https://t.co/98F2PZ8OTQ
— Jeremy Bowers (@jeremybowers) June 17, 2020
Hey Twitter, Can you take care of the abuse and disinformation on your platform?
Twitter: Check it out! Now you can *hear* the crazy man threatening you!
— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) June 17, 2020
Voice twitter is bad. I will not be participating.
— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) June 17, 2020
audio tweets are tiny podcasts, enjoy!
— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) June 17, 2020
Looks like right now you can’t send audio tweets as replies, which limits their utility as tools of abuse. https://t.co/3IFWI665zE
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) June 17, 2020
the new quote tweet is going to be reading someone's dumb tweet out to them in a refined English accent
— hk (@HKesvani) June 17, 2020
This is basically Odeo, isn't it? https://t.co/thw5Cz0Yz3
— Janko Roettgers (@jank0) June 17, 2020
thanks I hate it https://t.co/uga6zSI7nN
— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 17, 2020
Twitter doesn't have the resources to properly moderate text. What the hell makes it think it can tackle audio tweets? https://t.co/p2UFV1klmc
— Emil Protalinski (@EPro) June 17, 2020
The Twitter app shows the audio of voice tweets on the lock screen which is very useless pic.twitter.com/3Egc98OTry
— James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) June 17, 2020
An issue: https://t.co/zuSfYwuknd
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) June 17, 2020
A Twitter spox says transcripts for hard of hearing folks aren't provided for now, and the company is "exploring the best ways to meet the needs of people with different abilities"
— nicole nguyen (@nicnguyen) June 17, 2020
Bummer:https://t.co/ssD5dkgd9F
— Dieter Bohn (@backlon) June 17, 2020
voice tweets feel way too intimate how do i mute them all
— Makena Kelly (@kellymakena) June 17, 2020
absolutely raging, zero stars pic.twitter.com/zsd3g95mPO
— Gena-mour Barrett (@SmileGena) June 17, 2020
Yup. 100% predictable, unless you work at Twitter, I guess. https://t.co/rTyfcsvSdv
— Joe Brown (@joemfbrown) June 17, 2020
so excited not to use this feature https://t.co/jc3baiFm5I
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) June 17, 2020
The common way of capturing an abusive tweet is to screenshot it, so that if the abuser deletes it or makes their account private, there's evidence.
How's that going to work with audio tweets?
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) June 17, 2020
coming soon to Twitter: voice death threats in your @ replies https://t.co/m99nw8qhnE
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) June 17, 2020
Twitter voice is already proving why it should exist. Powerful stuff here https://t.co/SSRmhIABeB
— Eric Scott Johnson (@HeyHeyESJ) June 17, 2020
i don’t have voice tweets yet. i am being silenced…… shadowbanned….. someone pls rewrite section 230 and include a clause ensuring my right to tweet and post
— Makena Kelly (@kellymakena) June 17, 2020
spending the rest of the afternoon thinking of my first voice tweet so i'm prepared once twitter lets me speak
— Palmer Haasch (@haasch_palmer) June 17, 2020
This is only gonna make fake news harder to vet https://t.co/HBMb4IWfJS
— Raymond Wong📱💾📼 (@raywongy) June 17, 2020
As @MattNavarra says, a downside to audio tweets is that trolls now have a new way to be invasive and hurtful.
I hadn’t even given thought to how @realDonaldTrump might use it! pic.twitter.com/cgUDwnkyzJ
— Samuel Gould (@iamsamgould) June 17, 2020
Twitter's audio product isn't ready. Engagement will be low until they start auto-transcribing
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) June 17, 2020
congrats to twitter for creating an 'audio feature' that is a video with no subtitles which i'll never use because my phone is always muted
— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) June 17, 2020
Same
I have not listened to a voicemail since 2007 but excited to hear all your tweets
— Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) June 17, 2020
I will not be listening to your voice tweets
— Chris Davies (@c_davies) June 17, 2020
I'm just going to use the new Voice Tweets feature to send out short snippets of singing/karaoke.
— Chermit (@CherlynnLow) June 17, 2020
lmao this guy pic.twitter.com/nypgRv2g96
— Scott Lucas (@scottlucas) June 17, 2020
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