The official Twitter Support account announced today that it is testing an edge-to-edge media experience to create a more full-screen, almost Instagram-like experience for your timeline. In an email to The Verge, Twitter wrote that it is testing this change because it wants to better support visual and text-based dialogue.
Now testing on iOS:
Edge to edge Tweets that span the width of the timeline so your photos, GIFs, and videos can have more room to shine. pic.twitter.com/luAHoPjjlY
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 7, 2021
This change, if launched outside of a specific iOS user base, will also help Twitter address the concerns about image cropping that Twitter has been dealing with in the past few years. The image cropping algorithm has been unofficially proven to be biased against white faces, which was confirmed by Twitter earlier this year.
Twitter tried to solve this problem by eliminating photo cropping, but this time the design test went further, emphasizing visual effects in Instagram style. In the process, the entire joke format will be lost, but this is the price of progress.
In the development of Twitter, one of the most important factors is to collect feedback from the community and make improvements. Twitter and its developers often work hard to develop new features or other features for this short information-sharing platform. Twitter’s microblogging feel, and the huge community it has accumulated, make it open to many potential changes.
