As we speak, Twitter designer Andrea Conway has shared a new mock-up of a doable performance that may allow customers to set a notification to be reminded of a particular tweet, wherever from an hour to a 12 months prematurely.

Which might be useful, as there’s a spread of cases the place somebody, say, tweets one thing a couple of sports activities crew or occasion, and also you may need to hold tabs on that for later reference.

The place it feels a bit jilted is that there are already providers like this on Twitter, by way of automated bot accounts, created by third-party builders, like ‘Remind Me of This Tweet’.

By way of Remind Me of This Tweet, customers can merely point out the related Twitter deal with, together with a timeframe, and the bot account will notify you of that tweet at a future level of your selecting.

Which is the very same performance that Twitter’s now seeking to probably make a local course of – which it really may need to, as a result of with Twitter’s lately introduced API adjustments, which is able to drastically improve the value of entry, most of these kinds of instruments are going to go extinct, as a result of they merely can’t afford the brand new charges.

As such, it appears a bit like rubbing salt within the wound, that as these apps are being priced out of existence, Twitter is including them as ‘new’ performance.

On the similar time, many Twitter customers could be unaware that these kinds of third-party instruments are a factor, so making them native features would additionally make them extra universally accessible, doubtless rising their worth general.

So it’s a bit from column A and a bit from column B, nevertheless it does really feel a bit off.

I’m wondering what number of different third-party Twitter features the corporate may make native as these instruments exit of enterprise – and I’m wondering, then, how that can be considered by the dev group, which has performed a giant position in making Twitter as well-liked and extensively used as it’s right this moment.

Will which have longer-term implications, or will making extra of these kinds of features native be of extra profit than the draw back?

We’ll doubtless discover out, with Twitter’s new API pricing set to come back into impact in ‘inside months’.