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Twitter now lets you preview a user’s bio when you hover over their avatar

Bio previews when you hover over an avatar on Twitter.
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Twitter today announced — in a tweet — that you can view a person’s Twitter bio on the Twitter website anytime you hover over the person’s avatar.

Here’s the news-breaking tweet containing an animated GIF that shows the new capability:

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/626503872186482688

This is just the latest change Twitter has made to its consumer-facing service. Other recent tweaks include the disappearance of background images. Meanwhile, Twitter has also announced that it will increase the character limit from direct messages from 140 to 10,000.


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Twitter said earlier this week that it now has 316 million monthly active users.