The new medium is the latest iteration for the platform, which started with 140 characters of a typed message and eventually evolved to include photos, videos, gifs and expanded text limits.
The process of creating a voice tweet is similar to a text one. To start, users press a newly added wavelength icon and start speaking. If what needs to be said requires more than 140 seconds, a new voice tweet will automatically start, creating a thread.
In Apple's iOS mobile operating system, the tweet can be listened to while continuing to scroll through a feed. The feature will be limited to certain iOS users at first but will roll out to everyone in the coming weeks.
Users who don't currently have the ability to record can still listen to posted audio tweets and reply to them.
Users will not be able to respond to audio tweets with their own audio tweets, according to Twitter's help center.
Twitter releases new audio feature for short voice recordings
You can Tweet a Tweet. But now you can Tweet your voice!— Twitter (@Twitter) June 17, 2020
Rolling out today on iOS, you can now record and Tweet with audio. pic.twitter.com/jezRmh1dkD
The tweets do not appear to autoplay in the Twitter feed, instead requiring a user to click play on the tweet to hear the audio.
Twitter, which has struggled with moderating harmful text-based messages, didn’t announce any plans for how it will monitor or remove offensive audio tweets.
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