X Experiments With Pinning Communities, Search Queries, Profiles and More

X is working on a brand new option which might enable users to pin anything, from lists, to communities, to a search query, in order that they more easily re-access such within the app.

As you possibly can see in this instance, posted by X designer Andrea Conway, X users may soon have the capability to pin multiple different elements to their home timeline, in order that they’re just a number of swipes away at any moment.

Which could speed up navigation within the app, though it’s a major shift in behavioral process, which could take some time to catch on.

The previous Twitter team had tried swipeable timelines previously, enabling users to change across to different feeds more easily.

But that seemingly hasn’t caught on as a widespread usage option, though the X team’s now attempting to reinvent the choice, by giving users the capability to pin not only lists, but in addition communities, expanding your options for alternate in-app timelines.

And shortly, that might also include much more options.

Will that make these alternate feeds a more attractive, and fascinating option?

It still looks like a minor consideration, and it’ll take an enormous push by the X team to lift awareness, and shift user behaviors on this respect. And with no dedicated communications team, I’m undecided how that’s going to occur, but by adding more functionality, it could see some usage growth, which could spark more in-app engagement.

Possibly. I don’t know, it looks like a small change that’s probably not going to essentially move the needle. But X is experimenting with this either way, which may very well be of value in your process.