Twitter now shows how many people view your tweets

Twitter is launching a functionality that shows how many people have seen your tweets, similar to the number of times a video has been seen on platforms like YouTube.

“Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video,” Elon Musk wrote in a tweet. “Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.”

Reference: techcrunch.com

According to Musk, he is excited about this feature that shows users the number of people they would reach, the similarity to internet video seems like a call out to all the content creators such as YouTuber MrBeast, whom Musk explicitly states is not out of the question in the search for Twitter’s upcoming Chief exec. But even so, for some users, this feature may have the inverse result, revealing that relatively few people view their Twitter posts than they thought.

It already includes a feature that displays a lot more detailed analytics regarding your Twitter posts than simply likes, retweets, and quote tweets. You can check out how people interacted with your Twitter post by clicking “view Tweet analytics” under your Twitter post, such as tapping to see your profile or broadening the specifics of a quote tweet.

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You can also view total impressions, which are defined as “Times this Tweet was seen on Twitter.” This definition is somewhat ambiguous because we don’t comprehend what it entails for a Twitter post to be “seen.”

The latest views feature differs in that views will now be viewable to all, not just the account owner.

This feature is not yet available to all users because it requires a while for a launch to reach all users. The feature is now useable on both iOS and Android together with web usage coming soon. Reverse app researcher Nima Owji demonstrates just what functionality will look like in practice for people who can’t see it just yet, introducing that it appears to only work for tweeter posts that were made after December 15.

Twitter’s product launches have indeed been hit or miss. for instance, remember how you could get blacklisted for posting on Twitter the URL to your Instagram only about a week ago? That was short-lived. Twitter appears to be prioritizing less controversial feature updates in recent days.

Twitter upgraded its hashtag system on Wednesday, allowing you to view the price of a particular stock or cryptocurrency just by typing $ETH or $GOOG into the search bar.