• Mashable, Tuesday, July 27, 2010 1:33 PM

Twitter is testing inline multimedia, including videos and photos, Mashable reports. The tech blog first reported that the microblogging service was testing a new setting, dubbed "Tweet Media," which asks users whether or not they want to show photos and videos from everyone. For Mashable, the setting "strongly [suggested] that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream."

As an explanation for the setting -- which has since been removed from Twitter's platform -- explained: "By default, you'll only see images and videos shared by people you're following, and reveal those by people you're not. Check this box to see media from everyone on Twitter." Twitter later told Mashable in a statement: "What you saw was a small test of a potential consumption setting for inline media. We show inline media on our own iPhone and Android apps." According to Mashable, Twitter adding multimedia in the Twitter stream "could radically change the entire Twitter experience."

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