Twitter announced its fairly rudimentary polling feature a few weeks ago, but as with everything on the modern Internet, there’s a staging process and it’s going to take a few weeks — or months? — for the feature to be available for everyone. What’s interesting is that once I did gain access to the poll feature on Twitter, it appeared simultaneously on the Twitter.com Web interface on my computer and within the Twitter app on my iPhone 6s.
So if you don’t have it yet, patience, it’ll show up any day now.
It’s easy to tell, too. Just click on the new tweet button in the app or on the Web site and if you see the following, you’re good to go:
You can see the new feature: “Poll”, with the little pie chart.
Let’s step through the process, tied to the recent Republican Presidential Debate. To start, a click on “Poll”…
More choices, you say? Not so much. Twitter polls are two and only two choices. A or B. Which is, yeah, kinda limiting.
Still, let’s enter a question and two choices:
Notice you can’t add media: it’s greyed out. Nonetheless, this is simple enough to enter and create, as long as you have an A/B poll.
Fine tune things, make sure the spelling’s correct, and click “Tweet”.
That’s all there is to it. A few hours later, after a few people have responded, here’s the kind of information that’s shown:
Not particularly scientific, but still quite interesting and definitely easy enough to set up and post. Now, what’s your first poll going to be about?
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