Popularized on Netflix and YouTube, and after its arrival on other platforms such as Twitch or even WhatsApp, now it’s twitter the next to join the stream of including a tool with which we can accelerate or decelerate the reproduction of all the contents posted on your social network, whether videos or audios, using the already standardized playback speeds.
Although it is about a function still in testing periodthe company has already assured that the tool will be available both for the Android mobile application and through the web version of Twitter, yes, without having mentioned iOS users at the moment.
In 2x, 1x, 0.5x…now testing more options in playback speed for videos.
Some of you on Android and web will have different sets of playback speeds to choose from so you can slow down or speed up videos and voice Tweets. pic.twitter.com/OfGPf4F6Og
—TwitterSupport (@TwitterSupport) February 8, 2022
Thus, starting today, some of the users of the social network will be able to find a small gear symbol at the top of your videos, next to the button for subtitles. With this function, we can access a range of speeds between a quarter of the original speed (0.25x) up to double (2x). Although since it is a forced acceleration, it should be noted that it is easy for us to obtain some unwanted effects or distortions, with some voices in a “chimpunk” or “smurf” mode, or messages from the depths of hell.
But nevertheless, These tools have been shown to be useful. for those people with a great attention span and little time, even to adjust some videos or repetitions in which we want to see the playback in great detail, and even help us better capture some speeches, among other uses.
