If you always felt you wanted to give someone else credit for a tweet you sent out, well, Twitter ( NYSE: TWTR ) may soon have the solution for you.
Twitter ( TWTR ) has begun testing what it calls CoTweets, a feature that allows two Twitter ( TWTR ) users the ability to co-author and be tagged in a single tweet. Of course, Twitter ( TWTR ) made the feature public in a tweet, this time from the company's Twitter Create account.
"Share the spotlight and engage with new audiences," said Twitter Create in its own tweet . Select accounts in the US, Canada, and Korea can now send invites to CoTweet! This experiment will run for a limited time."
According to Twitter ( TWTR ) in order for two Twitter ( TWTR ) users to make a CoTweet, one person will create the CoTweet and then invite someone else to co-author the tweet. When that second person accepts the CoTweet invitation, the CoTweet immediately posts to each author’s profile and both of their followers’ timelines. Such tweets will include both authors profiles usernames and profile photos in the tweet header.
Twitter ( TWTR ) shares were up by almost 2% in late trading Thursday after the company said bots, or fake accounts, make up less than 5% of the total accounts on its platform .
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Twitter to test new CoTweet feature to allow tweets from two accounts at once