{"id":16583,"date":"2021-03-23T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:39:54","slug":"twitter-is-a-snitch-new-feature-encourages-users-to-read-before-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-marketing\/social-media-for-real-estate\/twitter-is-a-snitch-new-feature-encourages-users-to-read-before-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter is calling you out: This feature encourages users to read articles before sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone reads an article before retweeting it, right? Well, not everyone does, and Twitter<\/a> will snitch on you if you don\u2019t! In hopes of getting users to read articles before sharing them, Twitter started prompting some users to read an article before they retweeted.<\/p>\n

In a tweet from Twitter Support, the company said<\/a>, \u201cSharing an article can spark conversation, so you may want to read it before you Tweet it.\u201d The social media platform aims to \u201cpromote informed discussion\u201d by checking whether you have recently clicked on the article you are about to share. If you haven\u2019t looked at the link recently, you are prompted to confirm if you want to share the article or not.<\/p>\n

This \u201cread before you retweet\u201d prompt is a good way of getting people to read the content they are spreading. Without first reading what you are sharing, misleading stories with false information can spread into a virtual wildfire. Personally, I feel this is one of the few good things<\/a> Twitter is doing right.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already started receiving the \u201cHeadlines don\u2019t tell the full story\u201d message, you soon might<\/a>. Currently, the company is working on bringing the prompts to everyone globally, and they have a good reason for doing so.<\/p>\n

Back in June, Twitter started testing the new prompt on a limited number of Android users first. Although the company has only been testing this feature for a few months now, they have already started seeing very promising results. According to the company\u2019s tweet<\/a>, they have seen three major changes.<\/p>\n

First, more people are finally reading. Can you imagine that? After seeing the prompt, 40 percent more people have opened the link to read the article.<\/p>\n

Secondly, there has been a rise in \u201cinformed tweeting\u201d. More people are not just opening articles. There has been a 33 percent increase in the number of people opening articles before they are even thinking of retweeting them.<\/p>\n

Lastly, they have seen some people forgo retweeting the article after opening it up. This means people are choosing to be mindful of the content they want to share.<\/p>\n

Twitter has yet to say when the prompt will roll out to everyone, but the results they\u2019ve received are good. Also, you don\u2019t have to worry about the pop-up being so large and annoying, mostly. After you\u2019ve seen the prompt once, it will be smaller the next time you see it. But if you don\u2019t want to see it at all, just read the article before tapping retweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(SOCIAL MEDIA) This feature from Twitter has some mixed feelings, but is already making strides in encouraging mindful sharing and slowing misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337827,"featured_media":16584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[2024,1234,355,715],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media-for-real-estate","tag-content-sharing","tag-real-estate-news","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/ReadPhoneOutside.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17329,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/17329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}