'Expanded' Twitter will include article excerpts and video

Twitter has now an expanded version its tweets services that will include article excerpts and videos.

Its expanded tweets, a feature which has already shown YouTube videos or Instagram photo on Twitter, will now also show the first few lines of text of an article and videos as a brief description of the article.

Twitter said, like for example, if users see a tweet, with an ABC News link, the readers will be now able to see the first few lines of the article text, the author?s name and even a video if available to get an insight of the article without browsing the link. However, you will have to click the link to read the full article.

When you expand Tweets containing links to the websites, you can now also see the content previews, view images, play videos and more," ABC News quoted Twitter's Product Director, Michael Sippey, as writing on the company's blog today.

The feature will be available to www.twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com with effect from today. At present, this feature only works on Twitter sites, and not if users use a third-party Twitter client, like TweetDeck or Tweetie. However, this feature will be enabled soon to the iPhone and Android.

-With inputs from ANI