Twitter's Upcoming 'Save For Later' Feature Will Let You Bookmark Tweets

Keith Coleman, head of product, Twitter, announced that the social media platform will roll out a “save for later” bookmarking feature soon. This feature will let users create a separate list of tweets that they can refer back to.

“Fresh out of HackWeek and coming soon — a new way to save tweets to read later. Been a top request. The team would love your feedback as they dial in the design! #SaveForLater,” he stated in a Tweet on Tuesday.

While currently users can mark their favorite tweets with the heart icon and send or retweet them to themselves, most of these methods don’t work like they do for other social media websites like Facebook. The heart icon, for example, can be taken as people marking their favorite tweets, not as people bookmarking them to reference later.

According to Neowin, the general layout of Twitter is also expected to be shuffled in the coming days, which will change the way tweets are currently shown. The “send via DM” option is expected to be replaced by an overflow menu that reveals a similar feature.

Chances are that the company might design it according to community feedback. The company has, in the past introduced tools such as an “@” mention and retweets, in response to community feedback.

Chances are that the feature is revealed in Japan first, as indicated by the company executive Jesar Shah on Twitter Tuesday.

"Hi Twitter! Many of you (especially in Japan!) have said you'd like to be able to easily + privately save Tweets for later. Right now, people bookmark Tweets by liking, DM-ing to themselves, or Retweeting. But this could be easier," Shah said in a tweet Tuesday.

Shah has told users to follow Twitter product designer Tina Koyama for future updates.

Twitter recently expanded its 140 character limit to 280 characters for some users, which is the biggest change the social networking platform has made till date.

“We want every person around the world to easily express themselves on Twitter, so we’re doing something new: we’re going to try out a longer limit, 280 characters, in languages impacted by cramming (which is all except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean),” Product Manager Aliza Rosen stated in a blog post in September.

In a previous update, the company has also made changes to the notifications tab and it shows other information in addition to likes, retweets and mentions, such as people included in your Twitter network. It will also show interesting links, trends or accounts. It will alert you to follow a tweet that has been liked by people in your network.

The company is also expected to implement new safety updates, which will highlight tweets with hate speech.