This appears a little bit mean-spirited – although unintentionally, I might assume.

At present, Twitter designer Andrea Conway has shared a new mock-up of a attainable performance that may allow customers to set a notification to be reminded of a selected tweet, anyplace from an hour to a 12 months prematurely.

Which may very well be helpful, as there’s a variety of cases the place somebody, say, tweets one thing a few sports activities group or occasion, and also you would possibly need to maintain tabs on that for later reference.

The place it feels a little bit jilted is that there are already providers like this on Twitter, by way of automated bot accounts, created by third-party builders, like ‘Remind Me of This Tweet’.

By way of Remind Me of This Tweet, customers can merely point out the related Twitter deal with, together with a time-frame, and the bot account will notify you of that tweet at a future level of your selecting.

Which is the very same performance that Twitter’s now trying to probably make a local course of – which it truly may need to, as a result of with Twitter’s lately introduced API adjustments, which can drastically enhance the worth of entry, most of these kind of instruments are going to go extinct, as a result of they merely can’t afford the brand new charges.

As such, it appears a little bit like rubbing salt within the wound, that as these apps are being priced out of existence, Twitter is including them as ‘new’ performance.

On the identical time, many Twitter customers could be unaware that these kind of third-party instruments are a factor, so making them native features would additionally make them extra universally accessible, doubtless growing their worth general.

So it’s a little bit from column A and a little bit from column B, but it surely does really feel a little bit off.

I ponder what number of different third-party Twitter features the corporate may make native as these instruments exit of enterprise – and I ponder, then, how that might be seen by the dev neighborhood, which has performed an enormous function in making Twitter as in style and extensively used as it’s immediately.

Will which have longer-term implications, or will making extra of these kind of features native be of extra profit than the draw back?

We’ll doubtless discover out, with Twitter’s new API pricing set to return into impact in ‘inside months’.