Twitter just made a major change to the way tweets appear on its website: clicking on a tweet now opens a separate separate window within your timeline. The window appears for any tweet, but it will also surface replies for tweets that have one or more replies.
For now the change only appears to affect tweets in Twitter's website, and it's not clear if the company has plans to expand the feature to its other products.
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Now, when you click on a tweet, it opens a separate window within your timeline. If the tweet has multiple replies, it also shows all the replies. Previously, expanding a conversation would surface the replies inside your timeline, though not all replies would always appear if it was a lengthy conversation.
Twitter said Tuesday the change will make it easier for people to follow conversations, without losing their place, which critics have long cited as one of the more confusing aspects of the site, particularly for newcomers.
New on https://t.co/zDdcbPvEwm: entire Tweet conversations pop out with a single click––no more losing your place! pic.twitter.com/RJq8dZIMKh— Twitter Support (@Support) February 2, 2016
Predictably, as with most significant changes to Twitter, many users were already complaining about the change.
Tweets expanding in pop-up windows is literally the worst thing to happen so far in 2016.— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) February 2, 2016
why is twitter opening a new window when i want to check replies................— alex (@raiidou) February 2, 2016
Twitter made a new change where replies to tweets pop-up. It's awful. Twitter doesn't know their audience at all nor do they listen to them.— Rhéa ❄️ (@ashelia) February 2, 2016
literally name a single positive benefit of this new web twitter change. what possibly could pop up replies do that is helpful???— james (@televangelion) February 2, 2016