Twitter announces a “continue thread” option, a new feature that links tweets together while they are being composed
Twitter is rolling out a new feature that makes it easier to thread multiple tweets together. With this change, you can now link tweets together while you compose them.
Context & Ripple Effects
This is the third act in a slow rebuild of Twitter's long-form tooling. The company first added a dedicated threads feature to the compose screen back in December 2017 after testing tweetstorm publishing that November, and earlier still had worked on making conversations legible by grouping exchanges together on Tweet pages in 2015.
The new "continue thread" option closes the remaining gap in that arc: where the 2017 feature helped users publish linked tweets, this one lets them chain tweets together mid-composition without posting first. It sits alongside the same consumption-side push from 2019, when Twitter tested letting users follow a thread via subscription rather than likes or replies — threading is being upgraded on both the writing and reading ends.
First-order effects
- Heavy thread writers — the tweetstorm authors the 2017 compose-screen feature targeted — can now extend an unfinished draft into additional linked tweets in one session instead of posting each tweet and replying to themselves.
Second-order effects
- Third-party clients and workflow tools built around manual self-reply threading lose one of their few remaining advantages over the first-party composer, pushing differentiation toward scheduling, analytics, or cross-posting.
Third-order effects
- If Twitter keeps pairing creation features like this with consumption features like thread subscriptions, the platform is structurally repositioning itself as a home for serialized long-form writing rather than only single-tweet commentary.
The trend: Twitter is incrementally absorbing the third-party tweetstorm toolchain into its native composer, one threading feature at a time.