has been testing out a few experimental features lately, including tweets that by two accounts and an . For its latest trick, Twitter is toying around with a way for people to pack a single tweet with multiple images, videos and GIFs.
“We’re testing a new feature with select accounts for a limited time that will allow people to mix up to four media assets into a single tweet, regardless of format. We’re seeing people have more visual conversations on Twitter and are using images, GIFs and videos to make these conversations more exciting,” Twitter in a statement. “With this test we’re hoping to learn how people combine these different media formats to express themselves more creatively on Twitter beyond 280 characters.”
Although we haven’t seen these tweets in the wild as yet, app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi previously screenshots of what the tweet composer looks like when adding several forms of media. It looks similar to the existing method of attaching multiple images to a tweet, with the option to add and remove photos, videos and GIFs and to shuffle the order of them around. Having multiple videos or GIFs in a single tweet could end up looking messy, though, and it might cause havoc on people’s data plans.
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