Twitter has rolled out an update which will enable users access to view counts for Tweets. The new update is currently available on iOS and Android and will be available on the web soon.
View counts show the total number of times a Tweet has been viewed. With view counts, you can easily see the reach of your Tweets and the Tweets you see on the Timeline. They will appear next to the analytics icon on each Tweet.
According to the micro-blogging platform’s view count FAQ, it is not all Tweets that have view counts available. Community tweets, Twitter Circle Tweets and Older Tweets do not. Also, everyone on Twitter can see view counts on Tweet.
Just about anyone who can view your tweet counts as a view regardless of where they see your Tweet (e.g Home, Search, Profiles, Tweets embedded in articles) or whether they follow you or not. Even an author looking at their Tweet counts as a view.
On how views are calculated, Twitter said that multiple views may be counted if you view a Tweet more than once, but not all views are unique. For example, you could look at Tweet on the web and then on your phone, and that would count as two views.
The platform also stated that you can view counts on protected accounts’ Tweets. The author always could but now their followers can.
Also, Twitter CEO, Elon Musk has thrown it open in a poll to finally decide whether Tweet impression count should be on the left or right bottom of a Tweet.
Twitter has recently been rolling out a series of updates, one of which is the removal of the Twitter for Android/iPhone tag to Tweets. At some point, Spaces and the allowance to Like/Retweet from the timeline were removed. However, both features have been restored.
