Ever wanted to see the views for a random Tweet on your timeline? Twitter is adding a new feature that shows you the view count for every tweet on the platform.
Previously, the view counts or impressions were limited to the person who tweeted the tweet. Now, you can view the impressions for every tweet, including the replies and the retweet count.
Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video.
Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 22, 2022
However, some types of tweets do not get their view count shown: Community Tweets and Twitter Circle Tweets. Twitter has also mentioned that older tweets will not get the view count shown.
Twitter had this to say about what counts as a view on Twitter, “Anyone who views your Tweet counts as a view, regardless of where they see your Tweet (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, Tweets embedded in articles, etc.) or whether or not they follow you. Even an author looking at their Tweet counts as a view.”
It also added that looking at a tweet from the phone and the web could get counted as two different views. Twitter added, “Multiple views may be counted if you view a Tweet more than once, but not all views are unique.”
Elon Musk announced this feature on December 1, hoping to make it seem similar to video posts, which already have the view counts shown publicly on Twitter.
Twitter will start showing view count for all tweets, just as view count is shown for all videos. The system is far more alive than it would seem.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 1, 2022
This feature is currently available on Android and iOS; it will soon be available on the web app as well.
Replies and likes don’t tell the whole story. We’re making it easier to tell *just* how many people have seen your Tweets with the addition of view counts, shown right next to likes. Now on iOS and Android, web coming soon.https://t.co/hrlMQyXJfx
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 22, 2022
After Elon Musk took over the company, Twitter has been adding back-to-back features. Recently, it killed Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android tags on tweets. It also recently changed the display pictures of the businesses to square and added three types of verification tick marks, Gold, Blue and Grey. We can expect more and more features in the coming months.