In line with a brand new submit from X designer Andrea Conway, you’ll quickly be capable to add timestamp-based hyperlinks for video clips shared in-stream.

As you’ll be able to see on this instance, timestamp hyperlinks will allow you to direct viewers to a particular phase of the video clip, with the playback to start at that time.

Which is useful once you’re trying to spotlight a particular level, although most individuals simply screenshot or clip smaller segments for a similar function.

Although there are nonetheless many posts that refer individuals to “try 2:29” and the like, so it could serve a beneficial function on this respect. However it appears like a fairly minor replace, which is one in all my fundamental issues for X transferring ahead.

As a result of whereas the X crew has been eager to tout its progress, and its fast tempo of growth beneath Elon Musk, nearly all the new improvements that it’s rolled out since Musk took over on the app had really been in growth lengthy earlier than he wandered into the constructing carrying a sink and guffawing.

Certainly, out of an inventory of 73 key updates carried out over the previous 9 months, which the X crew just lately shared to focus on their efforts, solely 12 of them have been totally new.

Most, like Group Notes and Subscriptions, have been tweaked and amplified as a part of the brand new push, however they have been in place nicely earlier than Musk got here in. The primary new updates of observe have been its revamped X Premium verification program, the addition of longer video uploads, the launch of its advert income share program, bookmark counts, voice and video calls (nonetheless in growth), the Highlights tab, and job listings.

However that’s it. There hasn’t been an inflow of latest concepts for the app which have revolutionized the way in which that it’s used.

My concern right here is that now, the X crew has just about exhausted its pantry of concepts that the earlier Twitter crew had shelved. As such, it’ll now be left to its personal units, and to date, not a lot of its new initiatives have both caught on, or been utterly completed as but.

Which is comprehensible, provided that the app has additionally reduce 80% of its employees in that very same time interval. On this respect, any growth in any respect is a major achievement, however after we’re getting all the way down to timestamp hyperlinks as a brand new announcement, it appears like issues could possibly be working a bit skinny, each on inspiration and assets.

However it’s one thing, and it could possibly be of extra worth if X can get extra unique video content material posted to its app, which new chief Yaccarino shall be tasked with. But when it’s an indication of developments to return, it looks as if X’s fast tempo could possibly be slowing, now that it’s used up every little thing it already had accessible.