Twitter’s New Text Formatting Options Move a Step Closer
Twitter’s new text formatting options are a step closer, with the updated, native text display options now moving through to the pre-deployment stage in the app.
As you can see in this tweet from app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, tweets will soon have bold, italic and underline options within the tweet composer window, providing new ways to dress up your words.
Twitter chief Elon Musk flagged the coming addition back in January, when he also noted that font size would soon be another optional consideration. That doesn’t appear to be part of this initial launch, at least at this stage.
Twitter designer Andrea Conway shared a preview of what impact the update could have on tweet timelines last month.
Which doesn’t look great – but in all likelihood, most people won’t use these formatting options, so it probably won’t spark a huge shift in usage, and won’t lead to a tweet mess like this.