Twitter is developing Vibe, a function to display its status, like in the old

Twitter is developing a Vibe feature to update its status, similar to ICQ or MSN.

Twitter may soon adopt a feature from the late Instagram Threads app, as well as many other instant messaging apps you may have used over the past twenty years – ICQ, MSN, and the like. According to The Verge, industry researcher Jane Manchun Wong has discovered that the company is developing a feature called Vibe that will allow users to set a status similar to Threads and other older apps. You can set your status at the profile level, but you can also pin that status to specific tweets to indicate what you were up to at a particular time.

Twitter Expands Vibe Feature

The examples compiled by Jane Manchun Wong only show predefined general statuses such as “I’m eating,””I’m listening to music,”or “I’m shopping.”It is not possible at this stage to know if you can compose your own status, or whether third-party applications can use this status – to display, for example, the song you are listening to or the video you are watching. listen watch.

However, the concept of Twitter status is not entirely new. The social network had already tested something very similar in 2018, but the formula wasn’t exactly the same, and the functionality wasn’t widely adopted.

update your status like in ICQ or MSN

We have contacted Twitter about this. At the moment, there is no guarantee that Vibe will ever be offered to the general public, or even that this feature will enter the testing phase. Though we wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case. Twitter has long offered messaging features that would benefit from having status on a profile — letting others know you’re busy, for example — and the platform is increasingly relying on live features like Spaces audio sessions where you can share what you’re doing.