Twitter Launches Tweetstorm Feature ‘Threads’

A Tweetstorm is basically when a Twitter user goes on a rant on the platform and starts sending out multiple Tweets expressing very strong opinions, and a lot of capitalizations and exclamation marks. Twitter just launched a new feature called “threads” that will make this practice so much more convenient, thus opening up the internet to a whole new world of vitriol.

In the past, it can be difficult to keep track of all the Tweets in a Tweetstorm for anyone who wants to get the right context of the message. With “threads,” users will now have a much easier time rolling out the series of posts to get their point across to their followers, Twitter noted in its announcement. The company also explained that this came out of their examination of what its users were doing on the platform.

“At Twitter, we have a history of studying how people use our service and then creating features to make what they’re doing easier. The Retweet, '@reply', and hashtag are examples of this. A few years ago we noticed people creatively stitching Tweets together to share more information or tell a longer story – like this. We saw this approach (which we call “threading”) as an innovative way to present a train of thought, made up of connected but individual elements,” the announcement post reads.

As TechCrunch pointed out, Tweetstorms were originally used as a means to get around Twitter’s 140-character limit. The platform has already increased that limit to 280 characters, but many users still don’t find it enough to really express what they wanted to say.

With regards to actually using the new feature, there’s a plus (+) sign on the composing screen that the users can tap to engage “threads.” After that, it’s just a matter of actually sending out the series of angry Tweets or perhaps some lighthearted ones too.