Now on Twitter: group Direct Messages and mobile video
camera (A Big Lunch for Twitter)
A few months ago, we mentioned some features coming soon,
and today we’re excited to start rolling out two of them: group messaging and a
new mobile video experience.
Converse with a group, privately
Private conversations on Twitter are a great complement to
the largely public experience on the platform. You might prefer to read (or
watch) Tweets but converse about them privately. You might want to continue a
public conversation privately with a smaller group, or start one based on a
Tweet you saw. Many of you use Direct Messages to reach the people and brands
you’re only connected to on Twitter. Whatever the case may be, the ability to
converse privately with groups gives you more options for how and with whom you
communicate on Twitter.
The home timeline is a great place to have conversations but
it’s also a place to find great conversation starters.
The group function lets you start conversations with any of
your followers and they don’t all need to follow one another in order to chat.
You can create a group in just a few taps. When you’re added to a group, you’ll
get a notification. If you’re brand new to Direct Messages, here’s a good
resource to learn more.
Capture, edit and share videos right from your Twitter app
Tweets have been more than 140 characters for some time. The
Twitter you experience today is rich and immersive, full of images, gifs,
Vines, audio files and videos from some of the world’s most recognizable
figures and brands. And starting today, everyone will soon be able to
seamlessly capture, edit and share videos right from the Twitter app, too.
We designed our camera to be simple to use so you can
capture and share life’s most interesting moments as they happen. In just a few
taps you can add a video to unfolding conversations, share your perspective of
a live event, and show your everyday moments instantly, without ever having to
leave the app. Viewing and playing videos is just as simple: videos are
previewed with a thumbnail and you can play them with just one tap.
Our unique mobile video camera and inline editing experience
lets you capture and share videos up to 30 seconds in an instant. Twitter for
iPhone users will be able to upload videos from the camera roll as well (a
feature that will be available on our Android app soon). Here’s more
information on the new mobile video camera.
We’re rolling these features out to all users in the coming
days. Starting now, you’ll be able to participate in group conversations other
people start with you, and watch any of the public videos users post – like
this one, the first Tweet using the mobile video camera, from Oscars host Neil
Patrick Harris:
We hope you enjoy the improvement to Direct Messages, and
can’t wait to see the videos you capture and share.
................................. PARTNERS BING
ON TWEET TRANSLATION
Twitter is set to partner with Bing Translator to provide
machine translations of Tweets between more than 40 language pairs.This
partnership is to ensure the introduction of Tweet translation package so that
users won’t miss any of the actions on Twitter.
With this translation, users can choose when they want to see
a translation for a Tweet, and they can also adjust their settings so the
option to view Tweet translations is disabled.
Although
Bing Translator relies on advanced translation software to provide Tweet
translations, the results still vary and often fall below the accuracy and
fluency of translations provided by a professional translator. For this reason,
the original text is always displayed above its translation. For more
information on translation quality, see this Bing Translator FAQ.
To adjust
the Tweet Translation, all a user needs to do is to Log in to his/her account on a desktop or laptop computer,
go to his or herAccount settings
and locate the Tweet translation
section, then change his or her Tweet translation setting by checking the box
next to Show Tweet translations.
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