Faizel Patel – 17/06/2020
(Twitter: @FaizelPatel143)

Social media platform Twitter has announced it’s rolling out a new feature that allows users the ability to record audio snippets and attach them to their tweets.

In a blog post, Twitter says the new feature is available first on iOS and launching on Wednesday for “a limited group of people,” but in the coming weeks everyone on iOS should be able to Tweet with their voice.

Twitter’s Maya Patterson and Rémy Bourgoin says Tweeting with your voice is not too different from Tweeting with text.

“Each voice tweet captures up to 140 seconds of audio. Have more to say? Keep talking. Once you reach the time limit for a tweet, a new voice tweet starts automatically to create a thread.”

According to the Twitter help page, audio can only be added to original tweets and cannot be included in replies or retweets with a comment.

Twitter says on iOS a dock will appear near the bottom of the app so users can listen to audio tweets and continue scrolling through their timeline adding that the audio will also continue playing in the background even if they switch to another app.

If you have access, open the Tweet composer and tap the new icon with wavelengths. You’ll see your profile photo with the record button at the bottom – tap this to record your voice.