Twitter ATTENTION SEEKERS can now blab to each other IN PRIVATE Twitter is set to become even more annoying. The profit-lite company has padded out its network with 30-second videos, which will be a feature seized upon by admen. It's an unsurprising move, given that Twitter bought SnappyTV – a vid service used to edit and share clips from live telly broadcasts – in July last year. The …
Viewing and playing videos is just as simple: videos are previewed with a thumbnail and you can play them with just one tap
For now.
Next year it will be , "a select few partners will be able to auto start videos to enhance your experience by providing location and content aware promotional videos."
Luckily, I'm using a separate Twitter cilent (TweetDeck) that lets me choose whether or not to show attached fotos or video in the tweet stream. The Twitter client on my phone is also fast and tight, with a "hide visual dross" option. "Sponsored content" is shot on sight.
Haven't used the actual Web site in ages. Went there once recently to do something, and gaaaahhhhdddd what a shit-ass mess.
'Luckily, I'm using a separate Twitter cilent'
Luckily I don't have a Twitter client of any sort on my phone.
Actually, come to think of it, it's not luck, it's because I'm not interested and refuse to have anything to do with Twitter. Or Facebook.
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