‘Twitter timelines get noisier as videos and GIFs start autoplaying’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “Twitter is about to get even more chaotic and distracting.

The social network announced Tuesday that Vine videos, GIFs and clips created through Twitter’s recently launched video sharing tool will all default to playing automatically on the social network. The change is rolling out to everyone today on Twitter’s website and iOS application, with Android to follow in the future.

Users will have the option to “revert” to the earlier click-to-play video setting — but how many actually will?

Twitter’s shift to autoplay videos, rumored for several months, follows in the footsteps of Facebook, which began testing a similar option in late 2013. Like Facebook, Twitter’s videos will autoplay without sound until the user clicks to enable audio“.

Twitter timelines get noisier as videos and GIFs start autoplaying