Twitter Rolls Out Free 'Pinned Tweets' to Select Personal Accounts

Twitter is rolling out "pinned tweets" to a select group of high-profile users for free. The feature allows a limited number of politicians, musicians, and other celebrities to pin a tweet to the top of their stream. Paying customers will also have access to this feature.

A "pinned tweet" will not be constrained to time limits. It will be labeled as "promoted" at the top of a user's profile and is always displayed as shown below:

The Twitter pinned tweet feature is located inside a user's analytics page, making for easy use of the system. It will only show on the browser version of Twitter (not on the Twitter app or TweetDeck). Read more...