The microblogging platform allows you to add multimedia elements to retweets. Here’s how to add GIFs, images and videos
Twitter continues to wink at multimedia content. With a post in the profile dedicated to assistance, the microblogging platform has announced that from today it will be possible to insert images, GIFs and videos within the retweets. A feature, say the technicians of the company of Jack Dorsey, much requested by users and that has needed months and months of work.
The goal, in fact, was not to change too much the interface of the social platform and not to impact too much on the user experience. In order to achieve this, feedback and notes received through Twttr, the app released a few months ago by Twitter to test new features and new tools to be implemented within the “official” version of the social network, have been of great help.
Why Twitter has included images and videos in retweets
In the same post, the reasons that led Twitter’s technicians to want to implement this new feature are also explained. It seems, in fact, that for some time users have been complaining about the inability to share a tweet of another user without being able to add a media. As mentioned, however, being able to implement it without distorting the entire interface was not easy: users, in fact, could not understand that it was a retweet and not a new content. So an intermediate solution was found, which allows you to highlight both the retweet and the original content.
How to insert images, GIFs and videos in retweets
The function is already available on iOS and Android apps and on the web version of the social platform. To put an image, GIF or video in a retweet you’ll first have to click on the one you’d like to post on your profile, then click on the icon to share and choose “Retweet and comment”. At this point you just have to choose the image, movie or GIF to “attach” and publish everything.