Twitter adds voice messages in tweets, only on iOS for now

Yordan, 18 June 2020

Twitter has added another enhancement to its social network. Users on iOS are now able to add voice messages to their tweets which will complement the short text-based message.

You can Tweet a Tweet. But now you can Tweet your voice!

Rolling out today on iOS, you can now record and Tweet with audio. pic.twitter.com/jezRmh1dkD
— Twitter (@Twitter) June 17, 2020

When creating a new Tweet, owners of Apple devices will have a button to add voice right next to the one that allows adding photos from the camera app or the gallery. The voice message can be 140 seconds long (2 min, 20 sec), and then it can be replayed in a dedicated audio player.

Videos and GIFs are already playing in an in-house player, adding audio was a logical step.

There’s no word when Android users will receive it, but given how big this new option is, it is likely to appear sooner rather than later.

Source

Twitter iOS

Reader comments

Anonymous
18 Jun 2020
vGW

pls no I want to stay it this way. that's what makes Twitter edit request legendary :)

Love the Community
18 Jun 2020
Fv4

How about adding an edit feature? Many well known people's careers are jeopardized due to the past tweets that haters dug up which are unacceptable in today's standards.

sa11oum
18 Jun 2020
6kw

I agree with this, but that's not why iOS usually gets support before Android. iOS is a lot more streamlined and there are only devices from 1 manufacturer that runs the OS. There are also only a handful of resolutions to support - 4.7" squared, 5.5"...