It is all packed with impressive upgrades that will ease life for everyone into tweeting but with the May 2025 patch notes just out from Twitter. Faster upload? Check. New tricks with the markdown? Check. Animated emojis, too? Definitely check. But before heading out and making beautiful new things with these gadgets, let’s break it down a little.
First, speed. Twitter’s making some changes to its transcode process for video uploads on Android so that the average speed-up is 5.6% for the user. Some would call this insignificant, but while one attempts to upload a meme at just the right moment so that no one else gets to it first, every second counts. Anger tossing your phone through the room is no longer an option while you desperately fight to keep it from quitting halfway through a laggy upload.
Now, for the markdown freaks (yeah, we see you), an exciting new toy arrives in the form of email address linking syntax. Just slap angle brackets () in front of your email, and Twitter will automagically link it. No more plain text emails cluttered up in your DMs and hello to neat little email linkies. That’s one small addition, but for any businesses or creators dropping contact info, that’s one small victory.
As if that wasn’t enough, shiny improvements to all our huge glorious beauties that are emojis Twitter had added one more feature again: uploading animated emojis in WebP and AVIF formats. This guarantees sharper, smoother reactions to those hazy group chats. Be it the seen-too-much crying-laughing emoji or a show-off with a custom animated one, they now look sharp and load fast.
The patch also covers quite a bit of bug smashing (because what’s an update without fixing stuff that was broken?). Full list buried in Twitter’s official notes (linked in their tweet), but unless you have personally fallen victim to a glitch, I doubt one would find much in there that is urgently must-read worthy.
What does it mean to you? Well, if you are a power user, all these little things add up. Less time spent waiting for uploads to finish, less wasted time cleaning up links, and better emojis…well, just more fun, really. Nothing much to write home about, really, but the kind of nice polish that makes you feel the platform isn’t held entirely together by duct tape.
However, in fairness, it’s just been a run of small updates from Twitter now for quite some time-incremental changes, not ones that impact anything changing your view of the Earth, and all for more making that inevitable scroll before bed easier to suffer. They now just have to get to let us edit tweets without having to get a PhD in tweet-de deleting and reposting.
Well, for the moment, enjoy those small victories, experience those upload speeds, play with that new markdown, and spam all the shiny emoticons you want. We aren’t responsible if you send your boss animated clown faces instead of finishing that report.
Oh, and if you happen to notice some new bugs popping up after the update, welcome to the Twitter experience at least those emojis are cute.
