X has added a brand new means to assist customers navigate longer movies within the app, with uploaders now in a position so as to add timestamp hyperlinks to their hooked up clips.
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As you possibly can see on this clip, uploaded by Lex Friedman, now you can add timestamp listings to your put up, which customers can then faucet on to skip to that particular section within the playback.
In case you’re on iOS.
In case you’re not seeing the hyperlinks within the put up above in blue, that’s as a result of they’re solely lively on iOS for now, however X is seeking to make the choice extra broadly obtainable in future.
X first previews its new timestamps possibility back in August, with an instance of how one can add a reference inside your put up textual content.
So as to add timestamps to your X video uploads, you merely want so as to add in time markers within the put up.
As defined by X:
“Whereas composing a put up containing a video, a timestamp will routinely turn out to be clickable on iOS when you put up in case you reference a particular time within the video in any of the next codecs:
- x:xx
- xx:xx
- x:xx:xx
- xx:xx:xx”
So, it’s as simple as placing in a number of numbers, with the system then routinely linking to these time references within the playback.
X additional notes that clickable timestamps will solely be seen on posts which have a single video hooked up, when you’ll be capable of add as much as 50 timestamp references per add.
It might be a great way to assist customers navigate your longer clips, and with X seeking to put extra emphasis on long-form content material, that might be a consideration on your 2024 platform technique.
