Paid users of X, formerly Twitter, gets a new tab to highlight their posts | TechCrunch

X, previously Twitter, has began rolling out a brand new function for paid customers to point out off a few of their posts by way of a brand new ‘Highlights’ tab.

The social community up to date its Blue/ X Premium support page to incorporate particulars in regards to the highlights function. “Function your greatest posts by Highlighting these posts and so they’ll seem in your profile in a devoted tab,” the outline of the function mentioned.

Over the previous few days, X has been rolling out the brand new ‘Highlights’ tab to some subscribers. However in response to the up to date help web page, the corporate is now making the function accessible to all paid customers.

The platform already gives customers the best way to pin considered one of their tweets to their profiles in order that guests first see it. Nonetheless, it wasn’t potential to pack a number of tweets value of knowledge till now. The ‘Highlights’ tab may very well be helpful for an artist to place a highlight on their work or for an creator to function their common articles.

Subscribers can add any of their posts to the Highlights tab by tapping on the three-dot menu of the put up after which choosing the “Add/take away from Highlights” choice.

Together with the brand new Highlights tab, the corporate additionally made TweetDeck a subscriber-only product in a transfer to get extra individuals to pay for its premium service.

The corporate has been attempting a number of progress methods comparable to giving subscribers a slice of ad revenue and displaying group posts on the algorithmic “For You” timeline. In a extra controversial transfer this week, X briefly slowed down the opening time for hyperlinks to The New York Times, Threads, and Bluesky. It wasn’t clear if it was a deliberate change or a bug, which trigger the delay in opening hyperlinks.