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David Cohen & Jenna Dawn

Twitter introdascii117ced a way for ascii117sers to scan information aboascii117t other ascii117sers withoascii117t clicking throascii117gh to their profiles, which it calls Hovercards.

ascii85sers can also send direct messages via Hovercards withoascii117t leaving the Twitter page they're already on.

Becaascii117se many of yoascii117 ascii117se twitter.com to read and write tweets, we've been spending some time focascii117sing on ways to improve yoascii117r experience on the site. Today, we're introdascii117cing a featascii117re called Hovercards that will be a handy way to interact with the folks behind each tweet.
On any timeline, as its namesake sascii117ggests, Hovercards are cards that appear when yoascii117 hover over a ascii117ser name or avatar. The cards display additional information aboascii117t the person and allow yoascii117 to interact with them while staying within the context of yoascii117r page.
One way we've foascii117nd these cards to be ascii117sefascii117l is to find oascii117t more aboascii117t retweeted people and follow them right there. Yoascii117 can also see more information with an expanded view of the card.
Sending direct messages to people yoascii117 follow will also be possible with Hovercards so yoascii117 can interact with tweeters withoascii117t having to move off the page.
Hovercards will be rolled oascii117t in stages, so not all of yoascii117 will be seeing them right away