@sarcassem This definitely has the potential to be interesting specifically on Twitter, if only because the vast majority of the value in the platform originally was that everything was ephemeral. Now it's a weird hybrid but this kind of feature could help restore that original value... of course that all depends on how it is handled by the company, as with so much about Twitter in general.

It'd be interesting to see lots of people only using the main timeline for announcements, posts with links, etc, and then the ephemeral section being the genuine space for microblogging.

... even then, thinking about that, it's difficult to ignore how this pretty much makes it an Instagram clone, only for text. Like, just another version of Facebook for people who don't use Facebook as a general blog.

... and that's not a bad thing since this could be a way to leave Instagram?

IDK. I could ramble on about these platforms to such an extent that I should probably start a podcast. 😂