Twitter rolls out new features, including crew direct messages and mobile video expertise

Myolisi Sikupela: Staff Reporterby means of , January 27, 2015

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Twitter as of late announced that it will be rolling out a few fascinating new options .

the brand new features rolled out with the aid of Twitter are workforce messaging and a new cell video experience.

The thinking at the back of the crew messaging, Twitter says, is for individuals who want to proceed a public conversation which would commence and die on the timeline, but now with workforce messaging, it may be continued with a select few in a gaggle.

“lots of you employ Direct Messages to achieve the individuals and brands you’re best linked to on Twitter,” Twitter said, “regardless of the case is also, the flexibility to speak privately with groups provides you extra options for the way and with whom you keep up a correspondence on Twitter”.

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the good thing about the workforce app is that it, unlike the previous DM settings where you can still no longer send a DM to a person who does not follow them, permits individuals who do not apply each other to be able to chat. When someone provides to a gaggle, you’re going to get a notification. it isn’t clear whether or not you could have the solution to decline the invite to a bunch chat or no longer.

the other feature that Twitter offered is the video expertise. A characteristic that strikes right into the territory of Instagram, which allows 15 seconds lengthy movies. Tiwtter’s movies length is longer to that of Instagram by way of 15 seconds. Introducing the video feature, Twitter insisted on its person-friendly capability, pointing out that

“In only some taps that you could add a video to unfolding conversations, share your point of view of a are living experience, and convey your on a regular basis moments instantly, without ever having to leave the app. Viewing and enjoying movies is just as easy: movies are previewed with a thumbnail and you could play them with only one tap”.

iPhone users will be able to upload videos from the digital camera roll as neatly, a function so that it will be available on our Android app quickly.

the first tweet using the video function was Oscars’ host Neil Patrick Harris. there may be nothing to the function nevertheless it approach a super deal to Twitter that now its users can shoot and upload movies as tweets.

The social media network has been suffering from boom of late, and it’s even long past as far as to ask individuals to not put up pictures to Instagram however to submit them immediately to it. Late ultimate year, the picture social network overtook it in relation to user numbers, in an effort to have stung making an allowance for their comparative a while. the new features may due to this fact be seen as a bid through Twitter to reinvent itself.

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