It’s solely been just a few months since Twitter however the firm is already experimenting with a brand new video format. The firm is testing a brand new “Tweet Take” function that enables customers to share response movies alongside a Quote Tweet.

With the check, Twitter customers can choose to ship a “Quote Tweet with reaction” as a substitute of the everyday retweet or Quote Tweet. These “Tweet Takes” as the corporate is looking them will be both a photograph or a video, and the unique tweet can be embedded as a card overtop.

The idea is just like a function in Twitter’s short-lived Fleets function, which enabled customers to share tweets with their very own commentary in a full-screen format. Fleets, after all, by no means actually gained traction and the corporate pulled the function lower than a month after its launch.

Unlike Fleets, these response movies will seem in the primary timeline identical to every other tweet, although the movies will look noticeably totally different than the everyday retweet. (While customers can document a response in full-screen, it’s not clear what format they seem within the timeline. We’ve reached out to Twitter for more information.)

But these “takes” are maybe much more just like TikTok-style response movies, which frequently function a remark or one other customers’ clip because the supply. While Twitter hasn’t essentially inspired all these interplay previously, the corporate has been taking steps to construct extra creator-friendly options so it’s not essentially shocking to see this type of experiment.

Of course, simply as Twitter customers raised issues about whether or not Fleets may very well be used to focus on individuals for harassment, tailor-made response movies additionally feels just like the form of function that may very well be ripe for abuse. Quote Tweets are already a significant supply of dunking and bullying — which Twitter has at occasions tried — so it’s not tough to think about that these “Tweet Takes” may additionally change into problematic. It’s additionally not clear simply how massive the preliminary experiment can be — Twitter typically previews new concepts and options in early levels, however not all make it previous the testing section.