Twitter on Thursday rolled out a new feature that will allow users to share the specific moment in a long, live video that they want their followers to see.
Twitter said it introduced the feature, called Timestamps, after observing users’ tweets. “Previously, we could only tweet an entire live video, which made it difficult to discuss what matters most,” Twitter said in a statement. “We saw people tweeting with the specific time in the video directing us to the part they wanted us to watch.”
This is how Timestamps would work: Users sharing live videos can slide to the exact moment in the video that they want to highlight, before tweeting it. For the viewers, the video will start at the time the user shared. “If the broadcast is still live, they can easily skip to what is happening by tapping ‘live’ at any time,” Twitter said.
The feature is available for live videos tweeted both by content publishers and casual users broadcasting from their phones, and is available for web, Android and iOS users, the micro-blogging site said.
In November 2017, Twitter announced it was expanding its character limit from 140 to 280 for all users barring those tweeting in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
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