Twitter to display your selfies and cat photos better
Now that most smartphones take brilliant photos, it is convenient for people to take and share pictures. Back in the day, you would have to upload photos from your desktop or laptop to the web. Hell, many of us lived in a time where we had to scan our paper photographs -- yuck!
Sharing photos can be the most fun aspect of photography, and social media is ideal for that. Unfortunately, Twitter was designed to be a text-only service, so the additions of photo and video sharing, historically, have not been the best experience. With photos, for instance, they are often cropped in feeds, and must be clicked on to be seen in full. No more. Today, Twitter announces that it will end the evil cropping of uploaded images.
"While Twitter began as an all-text platform, rich media has become essential to the experience. Some of the best moments on Twitter are when you see the world through someone else’s eyes. Astronaut Scott Kelly’s awe-inspiring #YearInSpace, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus onstage at the Emmys, Brian Dickinson’s solo summit of Mt. Everest -- these photos bring us right into the moment. This is why we’re constantly refining Twitter’s media experience -- for example, we launched autoplaying video earlier this year, and designed Moments around visual media", says Akarshan Kumar, Product Manager, Twitter.
Kumar further shares, "Starting today, we’re making your twitter.com timeline more immersive by uncropping photos, so you can experience and present them as they were meant to be viewed. We're also introducing larger, more beautiful multi-photo displays, which bring out more of each photo".
You can see examples of how images will display above. I am a huge fan of this change, as you no longer need to wonder if an image is cropped when it is in your feed. Many memes, and comedy images containing text would lose their effectiveness when cropped too, as the text could not be seen without clicking on the picture. Twitter is definitely stepping its media-sharing game up here.
Plus, more importantly, the next time I post a photo of myself wearing a Biore Nose strip, people can see my gargantuan head in its full glory without needing to click. How can you crop such beauty?
What? You thought being sexy came naturally? Nah, yo. Gotta keep my @bioreus nose strip game strong. pic.twitter.com/5Fp4gbNHdB
— Brian Fagioli (@brianfagioli) November 30, 2015
Are you excited by this change? Tell me in the comments.
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