The Contributors feature, doled out to a very tiny group of trusted partners, is — according to Twitter — "one of several in development; some of them will be visible to regular users and some of them will not."
That tiny glimpse wasn't good enough, so we dug a little deeper and found that Starbucks is one of the brands in the hand-selected bunch. Brad Nelson, who tweets on behalf of the mega coffee retailer, has the inside scoop on Twitter Contributors, and he sent a few screenshots our way that highlight how the feature works, what it looks like and even demonstrate additional features we can expect in the immediate future.
Contributors: The Screenshots
As regular users, here's what we see when an account with the new feature tweets from the web:
Administrators of multi-user accounts will now see a toolbar that makes for easy toggling between accounts:
Accounts with the Contributors feature have a new option in the Settings panel. They can now grant two different levels of access: Enhanced Access and Partial Access. The primary difference is that Enhanced Access will give contributors the ability to view the account dashboard. Of course, this feature has yet to be released, but the language in the screenshot leads us to believe that it will be soon, making it the next big business-oriented feature for Twitter users -- possibly including data and analytics around the business account and Twitter activities.
An Inside Look at Contributors
I covered the story for NBC San Diego and revealed the images and discussed their implications for the first time before a live TV audience. You can watch that segment below.