news hardware Twitter will finally follow the trend of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube
It’s an arms race among social network developers. And by weapons we mean functionality. You know when something works for someone, others tend to copy it, and that’s what’s going to happen with Twitter.
Twitter follows the trend of the times
TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and now Twitter. We thought that day would never come and yet it is clear that it is here. The video will take an increasingly important place in the little bird’s social network thanks to an overhaul of the video player. From now on, If you click on any of this content, the video will take up the entire screen, and if you perform a vertical scroll movement, you will land on another full-screen video, and so on. A change that therefore not without reminding us of the reels of Instagram, the shorts of YouTube or even the entire functioning of the TikTok social network.
if before, Everyone – Tiktok included – copied Instagram Stories, which they themselves copied from Snapchat, are now all copying the popular short video format from the Chinese social network. And so it is now up to Twitter to do so.
Twitter: One novelty can hide another
it’s donea statement that the company has therefore hinted at the upcoming implementation of this new integrated video player. First, Twitter will enable this feature in the iOS version of the app., But that’s not all. As a matter of fact, The Explore tab will also have a new video carousel that will be highlighted “some of the most popular shared videos on twitter”. At the moment, this feature is only available to certain people using the English application on iPhone.
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These new options are a real turning point for the social network, even if for several years many people have been hoping for the implementation of a more efficient video player than the current one, which – it must be said – is terrible. This change is quite new, after all, since so far Videos tended to play a subordinate role on Twitter, since they were usually integrated into a tweetwithin which text and links still dominated.
With this change, the video becomes a distinct entity with a clear role on Twitter. In the official announcement Twitter officials have explained what the social network will look like “best place for videos”, an odd statement for a platform that wasn’t originally designed for it. They closed the statement with the following words: “We want it to be easy for everyone to use our service in the way that best suits their needs, and videos (including fun trailers) are a big part of that. » A small step aside to refer to the clip posted by Ryan Reynolds a few days ago to announce Hugh Jackman’s return as Wolverine in Deadpool’s third installment.
