Twitter Brings Tipping Feature for Android Users, Rolls Back AMP Support

Twitter is bringing its tipping characteristic that permits customers to ship cash to their favorite accounts to Android. The microblogging community launched the Tip Jar performance earlier this 12 months to the iOS platform to let creators, journalists, and nonprofits monetise their tweets within the type of ideas. Users can share hyperlinks to their Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, Paypal, and Venmo accounts for receiving ideas from their followers utilizing this characteristic. In a separate improvement, Twitter is cancelling one other characteristic for cell. It has withdrawn assist for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on each iOS and Android.

Twitter on November 19 announced the rollout of the tipping characteristic on Android through a tweet. Users can add the Tips icon to their profile from the Edit Profile button. Although, at present, a restricted group of creators, journalists, and nonprofits can obtain them. Twitter launched the tip jar characteristic in May this 12 months, then in September, it has launched for all iOS customers over the age of 18. The social networking platform is claimed to be engaged on the power to let customers obtain ideas in Bitcoin by the tip jar characteristic.

Separately, Twitter has up to date its AMP pointers web page on its Developer web site to indicate that it’s stopping assist for AMP. The support page, spotted by web optimization advisor Christian Oliveira (@christian_wilde) reveals that Twitter is within the strategy of discontinuing assist for this characteristic and it is going to be phased out by the fourth quarter of 2021. Previously, when a cell person clicked on a hyperlink to the location, Twitter would redirect them to the AMP model of that web page if an AMP model was out there. With the call-off of this characteristic, the navigation is not going to occur and customers might need to load the cell or native model of the web site.

To recall, Google launched AMP again in 2016 to be able to present appropriate content material sooner to customers of its Search product on cell. AMP exhibits a lighter model of a web site in order that it will possibly load sooner.