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Twitter introduces private chat and video capture & upload features

Microblogging platform Twitter has introduced group ‘Direct Messages’ to its platform and introduced features to capture, edit and share videos via its mobile app. With Direct Messaging users can now start private conversations with other users. Essentially, the platform works just like an other group messaging app, letting you select up to 20 people to chat  with privately in one ‘room’. Even if the people invited to the group don’t follow each other, they are notified when they are added to the group, and when messages are sent. The other major feature introduced, is the ability to capture, edit and upload clips, of up to 30 seconds to a user's timeline. The feature can be accessed via the app when composing a Tweet. Users can start recording a video by tapping on the camera icon on this screen, and once recorded videos can be previewed before posting. For viewers, videos are displayed as a thumbnail, which can be then played with a single tap. According to Twitter its iPhone app currently lets users upload videos from the camera roll as well, a feature that will be made available on its Android counterpart ‘soon’. The 30 second videos are an interesting initiative by Twitter, and will be interesting to see how people use it. Other than the standard fare of videos like birthdays and cats, the platform could likely heavily influence journalism, people can record videos of live happenings and quickly Tweet them. Quite a few events over the past few…

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