As you’ll be able to see on this tweet from app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, tweets will quickly have daring, italic and underline choices throughout the tweet composer window, offering new methods to decorate up your phrases.

Twitter chief Elon Musk flagged the approaching addition again in January, when he additionally famous that font measurement would quickly be one other non-obligatory consideration. That doesn’t look like a part of this preliminary launch, at the least at this stage.

Twitter designer Andrea Conway shared a preview of what affect the replace might have on tweet timelines final month.

Which doesn’t look nice – however in all chance, most individuals received’t use these formatting choices, so it in all probability received’t spark an enormous shift in utilization, and received’t result in a tweet mess like this.

In all probability.

The principle intention of the replace is to supply extra methods for customers to share longer messages within the app, with Musk aiming to facilitate long-form content material, with a view to get extra creators posting extra of their materials by way of tweet, versus linking off to a different third-party website.

Twitter has already prolonged the utmost tweet size for Twitter Blue subscribers to 4,000 characters, and is contemplating upping that once more to 10,000, whereas it’s additionally engaged on a brand new in-app keyboard show that will allow customers so as to add line breaks into their longer tweets to make them extra readable in-stream.

Inside the context of tremendous lengthy tweets, textual content formatting makes extra sense – and actually, you’ll be able to already make the most of most of these formatting features in tweets proper now anyway, as Twitter helps Unicode performance.

It’s simply not native, and never intuitive. Making it extra instantly accessible will certainly see extra individuals utilizing daring and italics, which might be a mistake – however perhaps, as famous, within the context of extra inventive choices, notably for longer tweets, perhaps it is sensible.

It appears we’re going to search out out both method, with Twitter shifting to the subsequent stage of experimentation with the choice, which might see it shifting to reside manufacturing quickly. It’s not 100% clear but if this will likely be typically accessible or a Twitter Blue unique.