recently tested some experimental features, including tweets by two accounts and one . For its latest trick, Twitter is toying with a way for people to pack a single tweet with multiple images, videos, and GIFs.
“We are testing a new feature with select accounts for a limited time to allow people to combine up to four media assets into a single tweet, regardless of format. We’re seeing people have more visual conversations on Twitter and are using images, GIFs, and videos to make these conversations more fun,” Twitter said. in a statement. “With this experiment, we hope to learn how people combine these different media formats to express themselves more creatively on Twitter beyond 280 characters.”
While we haven’t seen these tweets in the wild yet, former app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi screenshot of what the tweet composer looks like when adding some form of media. It looks similar to the existing method for attaching multiple images to a tweet, with the option to add and remove photos, videos, and GIFs and shuffle their order around. However, having multiple videos or GIFs in a single tweet can look messy and it can affect everyone’s data plan.
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