Twitter
is spreading its wings from 140-character bursts. The company has
announced an update to its mobile apps that would give users more
options when posting pictures on the social media giant, apparently
borrowing some inspiration from that other social network, Facebook.
One of the new features is the ability to tag people in photos. The
photo tags don't eat into Twitter's character limit, according to Cesar
Puerta, a software engineer.
"You can tag up to 10 people in a photo and still have all 140 characters at your disposal," he writes on the company's blog.
The other big photo feature allows users to post up to four photos in a
single tweet. The photos will join together like a small collage. The
collage doubles as a mini-photo album, and users can tap to zoom in on
one of the photos and swipe through to see the others.
Although Twitter officially announced its new photo features Wednesday,
another possible update has been spotted in the wild. Some users have
observed that instead of "retweeting" something to their followers, it
would be "shared" instead.
They're both functionally the same, but the name change has gotten some
Twitter users riled up for looking too much like Facebook.
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