Ever tried to share a video on Twitter, only to realize that it's not possible? Super annoying.
You can share a Vine on Twitter, but that limits the video to six seconds, and requires you have the Vine app installed on your mobile device. If you want to upload a video directly to Twitter, you're out of luck. But that's about to change.
Twitter on Wednesday announced it will soon be adding the ability to record, edit, and share videos natively on the site. Not a revolutionary new feature, but something Twitter has been sorely missing up until now. Better late than never, right?
"Alongside short looping Vine videos, we think you'll have fun sharing what's happening in your world through native video," Twitter Vice President of Product Kevin Weil wrote in a blog post. "You can expect to see this in the first half of next year."
Twitter also is planning to roll out a few other new features in the coming months, including a way to surface interesting tweets you otherwise wouldn't have seen. The company will use information like who you follow and what you engage with to surface highlights of what you missed as soon as you log back in or fire up the app.
"Right now, what you see of the 500 million Tweets published every day is based entirely on who you follow, and that's a great model for many people," Weil wrote. "But with that many Tweets every day, there's no way even the most avid Twitter user will find everything that's relevant to their interests in any particular moment."
Meanwhile, Twitter said it has several updates coming for Direct Messages that aim to make it easier to take your public conversations private. Next week, for instance, the company will add the ability to share and discuss tweets via Direct Messages.
Twitter is also working on an instant, personalized timeline for new users who don't want to spend the time creating their own.
"Over the coming months, we are picking up the pace of product changes and improvements," Weil wrote. "That will involve a lot of experimentation, and we'll be listening to your feedback along the way to make sure we build a service you love."