How to Tweet with your voice
We’re currently testing the option to Tweet audio messages on the Twitter for iOS app. This feature makes it easier to Tweet on the go with your voice. We’ve also added automated captions to improve accessibility.
- Tap the Tweet compose icon.
- Tap the voice icon.
- Tap the red record button to begin recording your message, then tap Done when you’re finished.
- You have the option to add Tweet text and/or start a thread with multiple Tweets. You can record up to 2 minutes and 20 seconds for each individual voice Tweet. If your message is longer than that, it will be automatically threaded up to 25 Tweets.
- When you’re ready, tap Tweet to send.
When someone you follow records a voice Tweet, playback is available on mobile and twitter.com with these steps:
1. Navigate to the voice Tweet.
2. Tap/click the voice Tweet thumbnail to start and stop playback.
You can enable captions by adjusting your settings for iOS 13 and above as follows:
Note: This is not the settings page on your Twitter app.
1. Open the settings app on your iOS device from the home
screen.
2. Go to Accessibility, then Subtitles & Captioning
3. Enable or disable the “Closed Captions + SDH” option
Once you have enabled captions on your iOS device:
1. Navigate to the voice Tweet.
2. Tap the voice Tweet thumbnail.
3. A transcript of the voice Tweet automatically appears
overlayed on the voice Tweet thumbnail.
You can enable captions by adjusting your Android settings as follows:
Note: this is not the settings page on your Twitter app.
1. Open the Settings app on your Android device from the
home screen.
2. Go to Accessibility, then Accessibility -> Audio &
On-Screen Text.
3. Enable or disable the Caption preferences.
Once you have enabled captions on your Android device:
1. Navigate to the voice Tweet.
2. Tap the voice Tweet thumbnail.
3. A transcript of the voice Tweet automatically appears
overlayed on the voice Tweet thumbnail.
1. Navigate to the voice Tweet. A CC icon appears at the top
right corner if that Tweet has captions available
2. Click CC on the voice Tweet player.
3. A transcript of the voice Tweet automatically appears
overlayed on the voice Tweet thumbnail.
More about voice Tweets
- Voice Tweets will be published as Tweets with audio attachments that people can play. Your current profile photo will be added as a static image on your audio attachment and will not refresh if you update your profile photo.
- Tapping on someone’s voice Tweet will play the audio message and automatically advance for threaded voice Tweets on iOS.
- On iOS, when you tap play, it will automatically minimize in an audio dock at the bottom of your screen so that you can continue listening as you scroll through Twitter and when you leave the app.