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The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's an interesting claim.

I don't think I've ever seen a platform struggle more with video than Twitter. Everything looks like it's using RealPlayer. It's the only platform where the Japanese wouldn't have to censor their porn before uploading.

[–] univers3man@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh my God. I forgot about real player. Plus DivX.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

And QuickTime. You can still get both of these. I can only imagine they're visited by people that've just come out of a 20 year coma and need something to play their .avi files on...

[–] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Real Player was pr….***buffering***

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

I doubt their server infrastructure will hold after all the shenanigans Elmo pulled with it.

Video streaming is a lot more taxing than text.