From PC Mag: Three months after releasing voice tweets for iOS, Twitter is experimenting with audio direct messages. In a statement to The Verge, DM product manager Alex Ackerman-Greenberg revealed that the social network will be testing the feature "soon"—starting in Brazil.
"We know people want more options for how they express themselves in conversations on Twitter—both publicly and privately," he said in a 20-second voice message. The no-frills interface includes a play/pause button, "in-line recording experience," and the ability to report messages, if necessary.
Twitter in June introduced "voice tweeting": the option to attach audio clips to posts. The idea, according to a summer blog post, is to "add a more human touch" to the platform. Start by typing a few links of text explaining your voice track, then press the "wavelength" icon at the bottom of the screen to record. Each clip captures up to 140 seconds of audio, but you can just keep talking to automatically create a thread.
The function, criticized for a lack of accessibility—particularly among the visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing—was later updated to make voice tweets more easily identifiable on the timeline, among other fixes.
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