Twitter now lets you post videos, images, and GIFs all in one tweet

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Twitter has just announced that everyone, including you, can now post multiple types of media in the same tweet for the first time. The feature was previously only available to people who were in on a pilot of program.

Previously, and as many likely hadn't realized, Twitter prevented people from mixing photos with GIFs and videos. As of today, that's changed for people using the official Twitter app on iOS and Android.

Twitter announced the move via a blog post, saying that people "need more than one kind of media to express yourself the way you want. Don’t worry, we’ve got you." The result is the ability to "share different types of visual content — videos, images, and GIFs — together in a single Tweet." That all seems pretty simple and, realistically, something that should always have been possible. Now, in the midst of the on-again, off-again, on-again Elon Musk takeover, it is.

"Adding “mixed” media to a Tweet is simple and straightforward. When composing a Tweet, tap the “Media” or “GIF” icons and select the content you want to share (and don’t forget to add descriptive text to make your images more accessible). That’s it!"

While Twitter says that you need to use iOS or Android to create a tweet with mixed media types, it also notes that "Tweets with different content types can be consumed on all platforms."

Twitter shared various examples of how tweets with multiple types of media could be used, including one from basketball star LeBron James that included a photo and video in a single message.

If this is a feature you've been waiting for, have at it. If not, there's still time for Musk to add something weird and wonderful before he changes his mind again.

Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.