{"id":463351,"date":"2022-10-07T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=463351"},"modified":"2022-10-07T01:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:02:43","slug":"twitter-rolling-out-multimedia-posts-to-android-and-ios-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/463351-twitter-rolling-out-multimedia-posts-to-android-and-ios-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter rolling out multimedia posts to Android and iOS users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/product\/2022\/introducing-mixed-media-videos-images-gifs-together-one-tweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that it is rolling out a new feature \u2014 that enables the combining of different visual formats into a single Tweet \u2014 to Android and iOS users.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users on Android and iOS can share up to four videos, images, and GIFs together in a single post.<\/p>\n<p>The microblogging company says adding mixed media is straightforward, with users simply needing to tap the media or GIF icons while composing a Tweet and choose the visuals they want to share.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can add up to four videos, images, and\/or GIFs per Tweet,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>While the update is only available on Android and iOS, users can view the different content types on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile developer and reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alex193a\/status\/1517776644316012546?s=20&amp;t=Gj2VkMsbCCj-L9MAJDczdw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first noticed<\/a><\/strong> the feature in April 2022, with Twitter officially confirming that it was testing multimedia Tweets in July.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter previously only allowed one piece of media to be shared per Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The multimedia Tweet feature is the latest in a slew of updates it has made to its platform, including the addition of a Tweet edit button and a TikTok-style video player.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/463023-twitter-starts-rolling-out-tweet-edit-button.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">began rolling out its edit button<\/a><\/strong> on Monday, 3 October 2022, allowing its Blue service users in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to make up to five changes to a Tweet within 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The microblogging company announced it would soon <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/462637-twitter-adding-tiktok-like-video-player.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roll out an &#8220;immersive&#8221; video player<\/a><\/strong> similar to Tik-Tok.<\/p>\n<p>The new video player will initially only be available to people using Twitter in English on iOS.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/463169-instagram-introducing-more-ads.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Instagram introducing more ads<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the update is only available on Android and iOS, users can view the different content types on all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":463355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[397,47938,691,405],"class_list":["post-463351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-android","tag-gifs","tag-ios","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463515,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463351\/revisions\/463515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}