MELBOURNE: Twitter will soon let you watch YouTube videos right from a tweet

MELBOURNE: 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.