Saying this in a written environment sounds contradictory, but platforms show it (or at least try). video content has more and more weight in the interface of your applications. There’s nothing surprising in apps like TikTok, whose core lies precisely in small full-screen video clips. Not so much on others like Twitter.

full blue bird app announced changes in the way you see tweets containing videos. It is another symptom of the disease, no matter how small. ‘TikTokization’ carried out in the main social networks.

Currently only for the English version of Twitter

If you use the social network on Android or iOS with the language set to English, in the next few days you will see: new full screen video player. This is like already on TikTok or when viewing Instagram Reels, you can swipe up and down to see other video content. timeline.

New player and redesign of Twitter ‘Discover’ tab

Although this is not the only innovation. Twitter will also add a video carousel to the tab Discover. In the aforementioned carousel we will see the most popular videos of the social network, just as we can now find all kinds of tweets that have gained relevance in the last hours.

Some will see it like this a simple evolution from the social network. Others, on the contrary, Another symptom of Twitter’s disappearance as some have already suggested, when the social network starts expanding the character limit for tweets.

However, and at least for now, No confirmation that these features will be extended to other languages ​​such as Spanish. Everything will depend on the feedback the platform receives. For an example of the failure, look at Instagram’s attempt to spoof a TikTok feed, which only took a few weeks until it was discarded. Facebook has also promised something similar to TikTok and it has yet to arrive, at least for now.

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