Twitter Blue subscribers on Android can now pay to take away the Areas tab

Twitter Blue has lastly began letting subscribers on Android customise the app’s navigation bar. The characteristic, which was beforehand out there solely on iOS, permits you to do away with the Areas icon that’s smack-dab in the course of your navigation bar (and naturally, take away a few of the different tabs if you’d like, too).

With customized navigation, you possibly can scale back the variety of displayed tabs to as few as two, or hold all 5 that seem by default — helpful if you happen to’re uninterested in stretching your finger over the Areas tab simply to get to your DMs and notifications. Twitter first began testing the Areas tab on iOS final 12 months and rolled out the tab on Android in Might, which appeared to solely give extra inconvenienced customers a motive to join the $2.99 / month Blue subscription launched final 12 months.

However Blue can’t save us from each characteristic that’s cluttering up the app. Twitter introduced final week that it’s going to begin together with extra data within the banner that reveals energetic Areas on the very high of your timeline. Whereas there nonetheless isn’t a setting to show this banner off completely (neither at no cost or Blue subscribers), it’s going to now present who’s internet hosting the House, who shares a tweet within the House, in addition to related Matters.