Twitter now allows you to submit photos, movies, and GIFs in a single tweet • TechCrunch

Twitter is now rolling out a brand new characteristic that lets customers submit photos, 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 photos.

When you can see combined media tweets on all platforms, at present you’ll be able to submit combined media tweets solely from iOS and Android. The characteristic permits you to submit 4 particular person media objects, consisting of photos, movies, or GIFs, in a single tweet.

It’s pretty simple to create a combined 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 all the time in search of new and thrilling methods to assist creators share extra and be seen. Mixing several types of visible content material collectively in a single Tweet permits creators to specific 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 combined media take a look at again in July. At the moment, customers couldn’t view these tweets on the desktop — however now, the corporate is making the characteristic accessible to everybody globally. Listed below are some examples of combined media tweets; you’ll need to 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 accessible for Twitter Blue subscribers in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The corporate additionally expanded its Standing characteristic 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 brand new full-screen video interface to some customers 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 value of $54.20 per share. The drama continues.