Right now, Twitter has launched a public check of a brand new ‘Views’ rely on some customers’ tweets, which shows the whole variety of instances that every of your tweets was seen within the app.

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, posted by @chimponsey, within the expanded tweet exercise show, some customers at the moment are additionally seeing a ‘Views’ itemizing, alongside ‘Retweets’ and ‘Likes’.

The rely can also be indicated by an eye icon in the primary tweet stream.

So, cool, proper? Now, as an alternative of pondering that individuals are seeing your tweets and never partaking with them, you’ll know for certain, which ought to do wonders on your shallowness.

Technically, the characteristic doesn’t add something new, in that you may already view your tweet impression rely within the full tweet analytics show (accessible by way of the graph icon in your tweets).

‘Views’ and ‘Impressions’, in fact, will not be the very same factor, however it appears probably that, on this occasion, that’s the info that individuals seeing.

So why put it within the normal information show, and confront individuals with that determine?

At a guess, I’d assume that that is a part of Twitter’s ongoing effort to reveal that it’s extra well-liked and influential than its normal utilization numbers might counsel.

Twitter, for instance, at present has 238 million monetizable each day lively customers, which places it nicely behind Fb (1.9b), Snapchat (347m) – principally, each different huge social app has extra customers than Twitter, which has struggled to develop its viewers over time.

However in keeping with Twitter, this doesn’t inform the entire story, as many individuals are consuming tweet content material often, regardless of not logging into the app. At one stage, Twitter pegged its ‘logged out’ month-to-month consumer rely at 500 million, greater than double its precise utilization determine.

That’s a big story for Twitter to inform, as a result of it factors to the broader affect of the app, which may make it a extra precious consideration for manufacturers, thought leaders, creators, and so on.

Perhaps, by making tweet view counts extra current, that may assist to reiterate this – as a result of perhaps, though your tweet solely acquired 10 likes, 10,000 individuals really noticed it.

I imply, that also doesn’t seem to be massively useful knowledge to have from a self- confidence perspective. However perhaps, by figuring out that you’re really reaching much more individuals than the Like and retweet figures counsel, that may enable you revise and refine your tweet method to enhance engagement and response.

Some customers have additionally reported seeing profile view counts within the app as nicely, which falls into the identical class, with profile view knowledge additionally already accessible in your tweet analytics.

Perhaps, by making these insights extra entrance of thoughts, that would have a constructive impact – or the negatives of such are minimal sufficient to justify a full check both approach.

I suppose, what Twitter actually must know now could be whether or not having this knowledge extra instantly accessible then reduces individuals’s propensity to tweet. Should you’re seeing that much more individuals are viewing your tweets than you’d thought, as a result of your different engagement stats are low, that would make you’re feeling such as you’re not nice at tweeting, and see you share much less because of this.

If that occurs, Twitter will little question change it again – however it may additionally, as famous, give customers extra context as to the true attain potential of the app.

We’ve requested Twitter for more information on the view rely assessments and we’ll replace this put up if/once we hear again.