X has added a brand new approach to assist customers navigate longer movies within the app, with uploaders now ready so as to add timestamp hyperlinks to their connected clips.

As you possibly can see on this clip, uploaded by Lex Friedman, now you can add timestamp listings to your put up, which customers can then faucet on to skip to that particular phase within the playback.

When you’re on iOS.

When you’re not seeing the hyperlinks within the put up above in blue, that’s as a result of they’re solely lively on iOS for now, however X is trying to make the choice extra extensively obtainable in future.

X first previews its new timestamps possibility again in August, with an instance of how one can add a reference inside your put up textual content.

As a way to add timestamps to your X video uploads, you merely want so as to add in time markers within the put up.

As defined by X:

“Whereas composing a put up containing a video, a timestamp will mechanically turn into clickable on iOS when you put up for those who reference a selected time within the video in any of the next codecs:

• x:xx
• xx:xx
• x:xx:xx
• xx:xx:xx”    

So, it’s as straightforward as placing in a couple of numbers, with the system then mechanically linking to these time references within the playback.

X additional notes that clickable timestamps will solely be seen on posts which have a single video connected, when you’ll be capable to add as much as 50 timestamp references per add.

It may very well be a great way to assist customers navigate your longer clips, and with X trying to put extra emphasis on long-form content material, that may very well be a consideration to your 2024 platform technique.