NEW DELHI: Twitter will soon enable you to watch YouTube videos from your timeline. The microblogging platform is testing a new feature which will enable users to watch YouTube video right from their timeline.
Presently, when a user includes a YouTube link in a tweet, then clicking on that link takes you to YouTube and out of Twitter. But with this new feature, you will not have to leave Twitter and you will also be able to continue with the scrolling after watching the video. Twitter is testing this feature with iOS users.
The company tweeted about the upcoming feature with a GIF. Twitter support wrote, “Starting today on iOS, we’re testing a way to watch YouTube videos directly in your Home timeline, without leaving the conversation on Twitter.”
The upcoming feature is available to a small number of users in Canada, USA, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
A Twitter spokesperson told The Verge, “The current test on iOS will be a four-week experiment. We plan to take a look at the results and will scale accordingly.”
Recently, Twitter announced that it will enable users to use security keys as the only authentication method. The company has also revealed that users can also enrol for multiple hardware security keys for logging in.
Twitter already allows users to enable two-factor authentication for secure logins. Users can use a security key to sign in to their accounts, but first, they have to turn on 2FA methods like SMS code.