Twitter is testing a new save-for-later feature called Bookmarks

Want to save a tweet for later?

Currently the only option is to hit the ‘like’ button, which has the sometimes unfortunate side-effect of publicizing your interest in the tweet (just ask U.S. Senator Ted Cruz how that can go wrong).

Twitter’s head of product Keith Coleman tweeted that the platform was working on a new feature to solve this issue in October, and now staff product designer Tina Koyama has revealed a design image of the feature, dubbed ‘Bookmarks,’ that shows it popping up under ‘Lists’ in the sidebar.

News from the #SaveForLater team! We’ve decided to call our feature Bookmarks because that's a commonly used term for saving content and it fits nicely alongside the names of the other features in the navigation. pic.twitter.com/cQ0X1PHlsR

— Tina🇨🇭🇯🇵 (@tinastsh) November 22, 2017

An early demo of the feature was tweeted in October 2017, showing how it might work when it launches to the public. In the demo, the user presses the ‘more’ button with three dots on the corner of a tweet and selects ‘add to bookmarks.’

For Hack Week @Twitter we started developing #SaveForLater. Here’s the early prototype that we put together in a week, which is likely to change. pic.twitter.com/c5LekvVF3l

— jesar 💭 (@jesarshah) October 9, 2017

There’s no roadmap for when Bookmarks will launch, but the Koyama’s tweets confirm it is now entering testing.

Source: Tina Koyama via Twitter Via: The Verge