Twitter is one of the most preferred social media platforms today. Although we actively use this social media platform in our daily lives, we overlook many of its features. The platform has many life-enhancing features that are unknown to users.
When we think of today’s most popular social media platforms, one of the first things that comes to mind is Twitter. Who on such a popular platform can further their work? make it easy, learning new things wouldn’t he? Twitter is like any other platform. overlooked It has many features. You may know some of these features, but there are many unknown Twitter features that will surprise you throughout the article.
Let’s explore these features and make the difference in our use of Twitter together. unknown features Let’s examine.
Discover the most popular Tweets from the user you love.
Twitter account you love the most popular Did you know you can read their tweets? To use this feature, go to Twitter’s search section. from:username min_faves:500 You can perform this search where you can view popular tweets by typing the parameter. To perform this search and view popular tweets, type the username of your favorite account in the username field, and the number of favorites you want the tweets to start with in the min_faves part.
This feature, which appeals to curious users, is perhaps one of the most different and least known features that will change your Twitter experience.
But what about reading tweets with specific topics?
Most Twitter accounts send dozens of tweets every day, which makes it difficult to find the desired tweet. Only users you follow specific topics How would you like to read his tweets? Thanks to this search, for example, you can read the tweets of Webtekno’s Twitter account about Steve Jobs. With this particular to your interests It will be much easier to reach tweets now.
To take advantage of this feature, from:username “subject you want to search” You just have to write. After searching with this parameter, which has a lot of potential to change your Twitter experience, you will get the results you want.
You can mute certain words, usernames and hashtags and remove them from your life if you wish.
About a TV show or movie on Twitter eat spoilers Don’t you want? For this, tweets containing the name of that series or movie. to hide say what? Sensitive If there is a topic you are interested in, you can hide its hashtags. In summary, you can hide whatever you don’t want to see among hashtags, tweets and usernames.
All you have to do to use this useful feature is on mobile or web Twitter. Settings > Privacy and Security go to section. After logging into this section, you can view the mute options and mute whatever you want to mute.
You can view the tweets you want by moving away from the tweets that do not concern you on the timeline.
in your timeline do not concern youAre you exposed to useless tweets? There is an easy way out of this situation; your Twitter lists feature. Customize and sample the tweets you see in your timeline with this feature. For example, if you’re into golf, add golf-related tweets to your list. This way, you’ll have easy access to golf-related tweets. Additionally, you can follow lists created by other Twitter users.
in the navigation bar to create a list. enter lists item and create new list Just click. After naming your list and choosing Twitter accounts, you can start reading.
Help visually impaired users by adding alternative texts.
The alt texts feature helps you describe what the image in your tweet contains on Twitter, where visual tweets have increased in recent years. In this way, your tweets for visually impaired users you can make it accessible. If a visually impaired user sees your tweet, he or she will have the opportunity to listen to the texts you add to the alternative text audibly, that is, a kind of visual content will be described to him.
To use this feature, add a text to your tweet. add image and edit your image go to. After going to this part LOWER Click on the part that says (Alternative) and make the necessary explanation for your image. We recommend adding alt text to your images often because it’s a useful Twitter feature that will make things easier for many people.
You can save your internet while browsing the app: Data saver
Many features of Twitter, such as the auto-open video feature consume your cellular data can be ruthless about it. Consumption while browsing with cellular data in the app to a minimum you may want to download. There is something you can do to do this. It is also the data saving feature of the application. With this feature, you can choose whether your videos will play automatically or not, and turn off the preview of images.
To activate this feature, open the Twitter application, to the account icon tap it from there Settings & Privacy choose. Accessibility, Display and Languages After selecting , enter Data Usage. After doing all this, you will see many settings. You can adjust the picture and video part according to you. To disable all these features at once, to Data Saver Just click.
Feature at your fingertips: Keyboard shortcuts
For the web version of Twitter keyboard shortcuts Did you know that it offers the opportunity to use If you don’t know, this feature Twitter at your fingertips. faster It will help you to use it. For example, when you press the “g+h” keys in the keyboard shortcuts, you will be teleported to the main page.
All you have to do to use and explore this feature available on Twitter Web is from your keyboard. “?” key print. After pressing this key, you will see the shortcut keys information window. Memorize the location of the keys and use them.
Don’t you want to find your old tweets easily?
Users who have been using Twitter for many years usually have more than 500 tweets. Who among all the retweets and tweets your oldest tweets won’t you find it? It’s almost impossible. But thanks to this advanced search parameter that Twitter offers to its users, between certain years You can access the Tweets you send. For example, you can look at Webtekno’s tweets between 2012 and 2014.
To use this advanced search feature, go to the search section. (@username) until:any date (must be in 2013-03-03 format) since: any date Write the parameter (must be in 2013-03-04 format). You can get help from our top image.
You can only read Tweets from users with a verified account.
Twitter parody or fake accounts of famous people; famous people that users want to follow to your real account and forcing her to reach her tweets. When this is the case, Twitter users who want to follow famous people are lost in a deep vortex. To get out of this vortex search filter available.
To use this filter, enter the search section. filter:verified and you want to call next to the word to write. In this way, you will have the opportunity to view only the tweets posted by approved accounts.
How many of these different features of Twitter did you like? Which ones did you hear for the first time?