Twitter wants to be TikTok with its next two features

The chaos with who is verified on Twitter does not stop the company, now owned by Elon Musk, from working on new features. The mogul, in fact, announced the future arrival various video related features coming soon to the app and that, by the looks of it, they’re aiming to take down TikTok or Instagram.

One of them, and probably the most infamous for most Twitter users, andThis is a tab dedicated exclusively to videos. Elon Musk confirmed this. when answering to a tweet saying that “Twitter should include a separate feed for featured videos only” for each profile, just like the “For You” feed.

Elon Musk also confirmed that videos hosted natively “will promote more than an external link”. Specifically, it states that “the more screen time users spend viewing a post, text, image, or video, the more that content is promoted,” and therefore more time is spent watching a video than clicking a link.

On the other hand, the manager is aware of the poor video upload on Twitter and claims to be working on a solution. However, he says it’s best to use 480p resolution. for 10 minute clips because you think that’s enough for smartphones or laptops.

Both benefits, we repeat, are very similar to those offered by tik tak and Instagram. The video app developed by ByteDance, even though it also allows you to upload images, greatly enhances the video experience. instagramfor its part, also attaches great importance to videos with a dedicated tab and priority over publications.

Twitter seems to have sorted out the chaos of verification too.

Aside from videos, Twitter is also making changes to some features that have only hurt the platform. One of them is a notification about verified accounts. More specifically, a message that appeared in the verifications of some famous people who had already died, such as Kobe Bryant, who allegedly had a blue badge and was signed to Blue, verifying his phone number. Now Twitter only shows the following message: “This account has been verified.”

The social network, recall, allows verification (blue icon) only through a subscription to Twitter Blue. Except, of course, those users who have more than 1 million subscribers.