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Twitter Adds Group Direct Messages and Mobile Video

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The express-something-as-succinctly-as-possible market continues to evolve, with Twitter feeling plenty of pressure from Instagram, which recently passed Twitter in total users, and Snapchat, which, for some reason, a slew of adults actually use, as though channeling their inner fourteen-year-old, lamenting that they were forced to pass dirty notes in high school as opposed to sending dirty pictures.

Alas, in an effort to continue diversifying its portfolio, Twitter has added two new functionalities: group Direct Messages and mobile video camera.

Group Direct Messages are as straightforward as they sound. Direct Messages have previously been restricted to both parties following one another. It’s a bit more top-down with group messaging. An account holder can initiate a group chat with followers, but those followers don’t need to follow one another in order to participate in the chat. Groups can be created in advanced and organized for whatever form of productivity suits the user.

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Perhaps the bigger news is the inclusion of videos actually shot and edited in the Twitter app. Videos themselves have been available for some time now, but Twitter has not had its own video camera. The app will allow the sharing of videos up to 30 seconds in length, and will even offer in-line editing. iOS users will be able to upload videos from their camera roll. And, per usual, Android users will get that functionality “soon.” Always the bridesmaid.

We’re also curious to see how this plays out with Twitter-owned Vine. While different services, there’s still some overlap between Vine and its video-sharing parent with this update.

The new features will be rolled out “in the coming days,” but Twitter says we can already participate in group conversations others might start with us or watch videos those users put out. Translation: celebrities and other “names” already have the new features and we, the cowering masses, must wait a wee bit while Neil Patrick Harris works out the kinks for us.

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