Twitter adds 15-second forward, back buttons and an image in video playback mode
Twitter boss Elon Musk has said the microblogging platform will add 15-second forward and backward search buttons during video playback, as well as a picture-in-picture mode that users can view while scrolling.
Responding on Twitter to a user who asked Musk to add 15-second forward and backward search buttons, he said: “Coming next week, in one picture-in-picture so you can watch while scrolling.”
Picture in Picture (PiP) mode shrinks the video into a small player so users can continue watching while using other apps on their mobile devices.
Additionally, these new features allow users to watch videos seamlessly while scrolling through their timeline.
Several users expressed their thoughts on this development on Twitter.
“Thank you. This is exactly the feature I want and thought was missing,” the user commented.
“Thanks, I skip so many videos because of this,” another user said.
Another user wrote: “All these suggestions are pretty much ‘make it as good as YouTube’ – I wonder how much it would cost to clone YouTube’s features probably cheaper now that AI is helping to code”.
Meanwhile, Twitter is gearing up to take on YouTube, having now allowed paid users to upload videos of up to two hours to the platform.
The microblogging platform also changed its Twitter blue page and announced that the video file size limit for paid users has been increased from 2GB to 8GB.
The tech billionaire had also announced a voice and video chat feature earlier this month, along with other features like encrypted DMs.
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