Former Twitter CEO Elon Musk has introduced that the microblogging platform will get picture-in-picture (PiP) mode subsequent week. The tech billionaire was responding to a person’s tweet requesting him to ‘add 15 second ahead and again search buttons’ whereas watching movies on Twitter.
“Coming subsequent week, together with pic in pic, so you may watch whereas scrolling,” Musk mentioned.
For these unaware, PiP mode permits customers to observe a video in a small window pinned to a nook of the display screen with out leaving the present webpage. The characteristic is already out there for main apps like YouTube, WhatsApp.
Replying to Musk’s tweet, many customers appreciated the upcoming characteristic.
“Thanks. Precisely this characteristic is one I too need and thought was missing,” replied a person.
“That will be a welcome characteristic to multi-task on Twitter. ❤️ that this functionality already out there with Areas,” mentioned one person.
“Superior! pic in pic permits for video monetization with out truly embedding adverts within the video because it lets customers see adverts whereas they scroll twitter!,” wrote one other.
Whereas a couple of took the chance to say options that they need to be launched on Twitter.
“Please add the flexibility to maintain video working in a thumbnail whereas viewing different apps, a la YouTube,” mentioned one person.
One other person wrote “Additionally add the hear solely mode when display screen off. Greatest for podcasts. Velocity management subsequent.”
“Please make it so when opening twitter on iOS it doesn’t mute / pause no matter was enjoying in different apps. It retains pausing my music / video / podcast and it’s very annoying. It didn’t used to do that,” wrote a person.
Just lately, Twitter introduced a brand new characteristic permitting Blue Verified subscribers to now add 2 hour movies, i.e. as much as 8GB. The brand new improvement comes after the billionaire revealed his plans of bringing new options to the platform together with including calls and encrypted messaging.