Twitter introduces Group Direct Messages and Video sharing
<p>Twitter has been adding a bunch of features recently, and removing some. Two new features that have made it to the social network today – group Direct Messaging and video sharing. The updates will be rolling out over the next few days to the official apps.</p>
<p>Essentially private group chats, Group Direct Messages will allow you to add people and form a group to start chatting with them in private. If you start a group and add a few members in the group, others in that group can add more people, provided they follow you. It sounds a bit complex, but it’s actually well thought-out.</p>
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<p>Apart from that, Twitter has added video sharing to its service. Sharing videos will be just like sharing images – you can start recording one right from the app or browse your phone’s camera roll to share the ones you’ve already recorded. However, sharing already recorded videos will be iOS-only, for now. Android will get this ability soon, so we’re assuming they haven’t yet completed optimizing it for Android so far.</p>
<p>Twitter hasn’t said anything about the Windows Phone version, though, which is a bummer. There’s no word about allowing third-party apps access to these new features via an API either, but we’ll be on the lookout for that one.</p>
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<p><a href=”https://blog.twitter.com/2015/now-on-twitter-group-direct-messages-and-mobile-video-capture”>Source</a></p>
