As you may see in these mock-ups, shared by Twitter designer Andrea Conway, Twitter’s testing a brand new search possibility throughout the response pop-up in DMs which might allow you to make use of another emoji as a response to a message.

An extension of this may even be the capability to replace the reactions which might be instantly exhibited to no matter you select.

It’s not a game-changer by any means, but it surely may present extra methods to work together through DMs, and with extra interactions switching to messaging, and extra non-public exchanges, it could possibly be a means for Twitter to raised lean into this development, and facilitate a broader array of response choices in-stream.

Twitter’s engaged on a variety of updates because it appears to drive extra engagement and utilization, together with tweet view counts, up to date Bookmarks, a brand new ‘For You’ algorithm, and extra. Elon Musk has stated that he can envision Twitter reaching a billion customers monthly by subsequent 12 months, however for that to occur, the platform must replace its programs to indicate folks extra of what they like, and preserve them coming again – which is what all of those smaller updates, ideally, construct to in a broader strategy.

However that’s a fairly steep hill to climb.

Final week, Twitter reported that it’s now as much as 253 million each day energetic customers, a rise on the 238 million that it reported in July final 12 months. Day by day and month-to-month energetic utilization isn’t immediately comparable, in fact, however when Twitter was reporting month-to-month actives, its peak was round 330 million, again in 2019.

As famous within the chart, Twitter switched from reporting month-to-month energetic customers to each day actives in 2019, however trying on the two measurements, it’s onerous to think about that Twitter’s month-to-month energetic utilization is any greater than 100m over its present DAU stats.

That implies that Twitter has doubtless by no means reached greater than 350 million energetic customers – but Musk believes that he can greatest that by near 200% in a matter of months.

Appears unlikely – even at present development charges since Musk took over on the app, Twitter would solely be taking a look at round 500 million customers, optimistically, by the tip of 2024.

If it will probably preserve that. More moderen perception from Twitter has instructed that consumer exercise has declined since these early post-Musk buy highs – however perhaps, by a variety of updates and tweaks, there could possibly be a means for Musk and Co. to maximise utilization development, past what appears doable, based mostly on the stats.

We’ll discover out, and because it pushes for that subsequent degree, you may anticipate to see extra updates and tweaks like this, with enhanced engagement in thoughts.