In how in the hell was that not already a thing news, Twitter has just added support for line breaks on the web.
Before, users could only experience the great fun of fragmented tweets on mobile, but starting today you should be able to see line breaks on Twitter on the web.
Now, you can properly view a haiku, or perhaps another type of poem. Of course, that’s the optimistic take on how people will use this ability.
As you can see, this ability doesn’t translate to embedded tweets:
Guess what you can doView line breaks on Twitter webLet the fun begin.
— Twitter (@twitter) March 13, 2013
But here’s a screenshot of what that tweet really looks like now:
Let’s
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LINEBREAKS#newattwitter
— Twitter for News (@TwitterForNews) March 13, 2013