Twitter will soon let you bookmark tweets with a ‘save for later’ option


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A “save for later” option is coming to Twitter at an unannounced date, as spotted by BuzzFeed. Keith Coleman, the company’s head of product, announced the upcoming change in a tweet last night.
Coleman says a way for people to bookmark tweets has been a top request, and that the feature will allow people to return to tweets and stories later without having to use the “like” button as a workaround. Although it might seem odd, I’ve found myself wanting to use something like this in a variety of situations. There have been tweets I want to retweet or respond to at a later time, story time threads I think are hilarious and want to share with other people, and videos that only live on Twitter that I want to watch later.
Just the other night at dinner with my family, the topic of chicken sashimi came up (I swear). I remembered seeing a good recap video about it, but when I tried to Google it, I was at a loss. I eventually found it using some creative searches within Twitter, but it could have been a tap away had I been able to bookmark it when I first saw it.


Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌 @kcoleman
✨🌳🍉Fresh out of HackWeek and coming soon — a new way to save tweets to read later. Been a top request (❤️🇯🇵!) The team would love your feedback as they dial in the design!  👇 https://twitter.com/jesarshah/status/917538205376770048 …
2:27 AM - Oct 10, 2017
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Twitter product manager Jesar Shah then tweeted an early demo of what bookmarking might look like:

jesar 💭 @jesarshah
Hi Twitter! Many of you (especially in Japan!) have said you’d like to be able to easily + privately save Tweets for later. Right now, people bookmark Tweets by liking, DM-ing to themselves, or Retweeting. But this could be easier. https://twitter.com/i/moments/917475191323746304 …

jesar 💭 @jesarshah
For Hack Week @Twitter we started developing . Here’s the early prototype that we put together in a week, which is likely to change. pic.twitter.com/c5LekvVF3l
1:52 AM - Oct 10, 2017

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The announcement comes shortly after Twitter’s move to roll out 280-character tweets and a pledge to revisit its public guidance on what factors can lead to tweets being removed from the platform.

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