Twitter is now rolling out a brand new characteristic that lets customers submit pictures, movies, and GIFs in a single tweet. Till now, the platform solely allowed customers to incorporate just one sort of media format in a submit, for instance, a number of pictures.
Whilst you can see blended media tweets on all platforms, presently you possibly can submit blended media tweets solely from iOS and Android. The characteristic means that you can submit 4 particular person media gadgets, consisting of pictures, movies, or GIFs, in a single tweet.
It’s pretty simple to create a blended media tweet: go to the tweet composer and faucet the picture icon or the GIF button, and it’ll now allow you to select from completely different media codecs.
“We’re at all times searching for new and thrilling methods to assist creators share extra and be seen. Mixing various kinds of visible content material collectively in a single Tweet permits creators to precise themselves past 280 characters and provides them extra methods to inform their story,” Twitter stated in a blog post.
TechCrunch reported about Twitter’s preliminary blended media take a look at back in July. At the moment, customers couldn’t view these tweets on the desktop — however now, the corporate is making the characteristic obtainable to everybody globally. Listed below are some examples of blended media tweets; you’ll must open them on Twitter to see a number of media.
It’s been a busy week for Twitter characteristic rollouts. The social community made the Edit Tweet button obtainable for Twitter Blue subscribers in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The corporate additionally expanded its Status feature with new choices for tags like “Breaking information,” “Gaming,” “Pet of the day,” “Then and now,” “To whom it might concern,” “Twitter do your factor,” and “Watching cricket.” Plus, Twitter is rolling out a new full-screen video interface to some users with TikTok-like vertical scrolling to leap between clips.
Whereas all this was occurring, Elon Musk made a U-turn earlier this week and stated he aimed to finish the Twitter acquisition at a beforehand agreed worth of $54.20 per share. The drama continues.
