Twitter announced on Tuesday the launch of a new feature that will allow users to more easily post tweetstorms – a series of sequential tweets that are connected. The company had confirmed last month it was testing the feature – which it’s now calling “threads” – across its iOS and Android apps. Tweetstorms or Twitter threads have been used as a workaround for getting past a tweet's character limit in order to share longer posts. Up to this point, if a user wanted to post a series of tweets he/she would either add a number to the tweet (eg 1/,2/ and so on) or have to mention the that the subsequent tweets will be part of a thread. Now users can tap a '+' button while composing and write multiple tweets. Twitter will automatically put them in a thread and publish them all at once. Twitter will also label threads with a “show this thread” text below the tweets so people know there is more to read. It had been reported earlier that the social media giant was testing a product like this for months. In addition, the new feature allows users to go back and update a thread by adding new tweets after it has been already posted. To do so, the user has to write out the new tweet after tapping the “Add another Tweet” button. TechCrunch reports that there’s currently a limit of 25 entries in a thread, but that number may be subject to change depending…
