Twitter PWA for Windows 10 updated with event video pop-out, much more

The Twitter Progressive Web App (PWA) for Windows 10 is getting a pretty hefty list of updates today. According to the release notes, you'll now be able to pop out issue videos when reading tweets, crop and resize image uploads, and more. This update also includes several improvements to things like polls, emoji, profiles, and more (via OnMSFT).

Hither's a full wait at the release notes for the latest batch of updates:

New

Video: Events with a video will at present pop-out the video and put it in the bottom corner of the screen as you gyre downward to read Tweets.

Events: Added social context ('8k people here') to the events page to share the scale of the result.

Image Uploading: You lot can now resize and crop uploaded images for your Tweets and DMs. Click the paintbrush icon on the lesser correct after selecting an image to adjust the image (Contour image cropping is coming before long™).

Updated

Polls: Improvements to poll display and poll creation on smaller screens.

Emoji: Update emoji to Twemoji 11.iii. Good visual coverage of the changes at Emojipedia and more specific details at GitHub

Profile: Allow media carousel to coil through more items. Information technology was fix to 6, increased to 20.

Profile (mobile only, for now): When viewing an account'south Tweets, Likes, or Media we'll bear witness the total count. It appears nether the business relationship name in the header, and changes appropriately as you lot navigate the profile.

Images: Slightly improved image quality for large images.

Timeline: Scroll positioning now accurately accounts for the size of the top-navigation component.

Accessibility: Improved the screen readability of the composer to at the top of the timeline.

Direct Messages: Make the entire conversation a drag/drop target, rather than just the input component.

Fixes

Profile: Profile photos are no longer slightly cropped.

Timeline: The 'Retweeted past' text is at present properly aligned.

Tweets: Tweet gif attachments were incorrectly limited to 5MB, we've increased the limit to 15MB.

Video: Fixed an issue when rotating a device while playing a full-screen video.

Video: Permit Firefox to autoplay videos too.

Timeline: Fixed a scroll position issues cause by a modify in Chrome's total-screen behavior.

Direct Letters: Images in DMs will always exist total size (as opposed to the cropped display the timeline uses)

Because Twitter is at present a PWA app on Windows 10, there's no need to secure the update through the Microsoft Store. These changes should automatically appear in the Twitter app as they're available.

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