Twitter launching TikTok-style video feed with \u2018Videos for you\u2019 section Unsplash: Brett JordanTwitter has announced they will be rolling out an \u201cimmersive\u201d video feed similar to TikTok, along with a \u2018Videos for you\u2019 section on the app. On September 29, Twitter revealed in a blog post that they are going to be rolling out two new video features to the platform. The first is their \u201cupdated immersive media viewer,\u201d which they say, \u201cexpands videos to full screen with a single click, allowing you to easily access the full, immersive viewing experience.\u201d Once you\u2019ve tapped a video to activate the viewer, you will be able to scroll up to start browsing more video content. The second feature is a \u2018Videos for you\u2019 carousel, with the blog post explaining: \u201cWith our new video carousel, you can now easily find more videos you like alongside Tweets and Trends that might interest you. Just open the Explore tab to discover some of the most popular videos being shared on Twitter.\u201d Many are drawing comparisons between these new features, and TikTok\u2019s popular For You Page, which allows users to scroll through full-screen vertical videos to discover suggested content recommended for the user by the app\u2019s algorithm. A number of apps have taken inspiration from TikTok\u2019s popular feed, including Amazon, Instagram, and more, though many of these apps, Instagram particularly, have received backlash from users who don\u2019t want the platforms to attempt to \u2018copy\u2019 TikTok. Twitter has also received backlash in the past for testing video features similar to TikTok. Twitter says their immersive media viewer will be available \u201cin the coming days\u201d to people using Twitter in English on iOS, and that their video carousel is currently available \u201cto people in select countries using Twitter in English on iOS and Android.\u201d Whether the features are rolled out to more countries and devices remains to be seen, as well as whether or not they are popular among Twitter users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter launching TikTok-style video feed with \u2018Videos for you\u2019 section Unsplash: Brett JordanTwitter has announced they will be rolling out an \u201cimmersive\u201d video feed similar to TikTok, along with a \u2018Videos for you\u2019 section on the app. On September 29, Twitter revealed in a blog post that they are going to be rolling out two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}