The Reason You Saw The Virginia Shooting Video, Even If You Didn't Want To
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-autoplay-virginia-shooting-video_55ddf6efe4b0a40aa3ad1a38?kvcommref=mostpopular
Unlike on YouTube or sites like LiveLeak that are geared
toward difficult footage, Twitter videos now play automatically,
without any action by a user, as soon as the video is seen on a
screen. While Twitter only launched the feature in June, the
company has been experimenting for years with ways to get users
to watch videos more quickly -- before autoplay, the motion
required to play a video had been reduced to a single tap. When
Twitter converted to autoplay, it framed the update as a way of
allowing users to better experience events in real time. "The
extra effort meant you could miss something that you care
about," a company blog post read. That's code for: Extra
tapping? Yeah, that means that you might miss an advertisement.
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You'll note that all the complaints today about auto-playing of the
Virginia shooting relate to Facebook and Twitter. Nobody is complaining
about Google/YouTube in this regard, because Google/YouTube handle
situations like this correctly and reasonably.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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