Twitter has slapped yet one more social media stat on customers’ tweets: Bookmark counts.

On Thursday, Twitter began to roll out analytics onto tweets that present what number of occasions a tweet has been bookmarked(Opens in a brand new tab). As of publishing time, the bookmark rely stat is barely exhibiting up on Twitter’s iOS apps however will quickly increase and be displayed on Twitter for net and different platforms too.

Bookmark counts

That is what the underside of a tweet web page appears to be like like now. So many numbers…
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“We love Bookmarks for saving Tweets to revisit later,” posted(Opens in a brand new tab) the official @TwitterSupport account. “Beginning at this time on iOS, you’ll now see the full variety of occasions a Tweet has been bookmarked on Tweet particulars.

And to be clear: The variety of occasions a tweet has been bookmarked is displayed publicly. Customers won’t be able to see who has bookmarked a tweet as bookmarks are supposed to be personal.

“We’ll by no means show which accounts have added a Tweet to their Bookmarks,” Twitter added(Opens in a brand new tab) to its tweet assertion.

The addition of bookmark counts has been extremely criticized on Twitter already with customers discovering the quantity pointless. Others have quipped(Opens in a brand new tab) that Twitter has been including so many various social media stats to particular person tweets that the tweet web page has now turn out to be cluttered. Girls particularly on the platform have been disturbed to search out how many occasions(Opens in a brand new tab) images of themselves that they shared have been bookmarked.

Tweets already displayed what number of occasions it was retweeted, quoted, and preferred. In December, shortly after Elon Musk acquired the corporate, Twitter rolled out view counts for tweets as properly. With the addition of bookmark counts, there at the moment are 5 completely different metrics displayed on every tweet.

Jane Manchun Wong, a developer who typically finds new options being added into apps earlier than they formally roll out, first reported(Opens in a brand new tab) about Twitter’s bookmark rely being added into tweet particulars final month. She additionally observed(Opens in a brand new tab) a development now that bookmark counts are public too.

“Simply porn tweets and it appears they’ve increased bookmark-to-like ratio,” Wong tweeted.

For these unfamiliar with the characteristic, Twitter first rolled out bookmarks in 2018. Previous to that, many Twitter customers would “like” a tweet with a purpose to reserve it for later. Nevertheless, being that likes are public, “liking” a tweet would typically be misconstrued as an endorsement of the assertion within the put up. The bookmark characteristic enabled customers to privately create a group of tweets that they might need to refer again to later.

In January of this yr, Twitter moved(Opens in a brand new tab) the bookmark characteristic on its cellular apps from a drop down menu to a tappable icon seen on the identical web page as every tweet. The purpose was to advertise using the characteristic on the platform. Not lengthy after, Musk tweeted(Opens in a brand new tab) his intention to incorporate the quantity of occasions a tweet was bookmarked within the complete “likes” quantity. Nevertheless, with the roll out of bookmark counts, it appears the 2 metrics will likely be stored separate.

As everyone knows, Musk is a giant fan of social media stats. 

The billionaire reportedly known as an emergency assembly with Twitter engineers on the evening of the Tremendous Bowl after a tweet from President Joe Biden outperformed certainly one of his. The subsequent day, Twitter rolled out an algorithm change that injected Musk’s tweets to the highest of each customers’ feed. 

Musk has additionally promoted Twitter because the “greatest click on driver(Opens in a brand new tab) on the web” and later deleted the tweet when reality checks identified that the social community is definitely a reasonably low visitors driver when in comparison with rivals.