Twitter To Add 15-Sec Forward, Back Buttons Along With Pic In Pic Mode

Twitter boss Elon Musk has mentioned the microblogging platform will add 15-second ahead and again search buttons throughout video playback, together with picture-in-picture mode for customers to observe whereas scrolling.

Replying to a person on Twitter who requested Musk so as to add 15-second ahead and again search buttons, he mentioned, “Coming subsequent week, together with pic in pic, so you may watch whereas scrolling”.

Picture-in-picture (PiP) mode shrinks a video into a small player so users can keep watching while using other apps on their mobile devices.

Moreover, these new features will enable users to seamlessly watch videos while scrolling through their timelines.

Several users expressed their thoughts on this development on Twitter.

“Thanks. Exactly this feature is one I too want and thought was lacking,” a person commented.

“Thank you, I skip so many movies due to this,” another user said.

One more user wrote, “All these suggestions are pretty much “make it as good as YouTube” – I ponder how a lot it could value to clone YouTube’s options in all probability cheaper now with AI serving to to code”.

Meanwhile, Twitter is gearing up to take on YouTube as it has now allowed paid users to upload videos up to two hours in length on the platform.

The microblogging platform also changed its Twitter Blue page and announced that the video file size limit for paid users has been raised from 2GB to 8GB.

The tech billionaire had also announced the voice and video chat feature earlier this month, along with other features such as encrypted DMs.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – IANS)