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Twitter now highlighting photos and videos on site, mobile apps
As part of a new update, photos and videos will now readily show up on Twitter's mobile site as well as its apps.
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Twitter users are posting an average of 500 million tweets a day, and many of those contain photos and videos.
As part of a new software update for its app on Android and iPhone, as well as to its Web site, the company says it's made media "more visual and more engaging" for those tweets with previews that show up underneath.
These images (or short video snippets from Vine) now pop up just below images instead of a link that users previously needed to tap within the company's official app. In practice, it looks like this: