Twitter Is Considering Adding Status Updates, More Messaging-Like Features in 2019

The platform wants to make the app feel more like a real-time messaging service

Twitter first landed on the tech scene as a text-message based social network, and nearly 13 years later, it’s thinking about adding features that will bring Twitter back to its roots.

At the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Keith Coleman, Twitter’s vp of product, said that the social network was considering rolling out new products that would make the platform look and feel more like a messaging service, with features like chat bubbles, indications that others are online or replying to messages, and status update-like tweets.

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