How to Turn Off Video AutoPlay in Twitter For PC and Smartphone

It’s cool to have Turn Off Video AutoPlay in Twitter as you scroll through your Twitter timeline, as long as it doesn’t raise your mobile service bill. In this post, you’ll learn how to change the autoplay settings for videos and animated GIFs on Twitter, including how to turn it off completely on both the Smartphone and desktop versions of Twitter. Twitter added auto-play for videos in the summer of 2015, saying it would make it “easier to watch videos.”

Twitter is the most popular microblogging site in the world, with hundreds of millions of people using it every day. Many tweets include videos or GIFs that are often funny, interesting, or thought-provoking, but the fact that they play automatically as you scroll can be annoying. Even though Twitter automatically plays videos without sound, it can still be a royal pain. The good news is that this can be turned off in a few easy steps, so users don’t have to put up with media automatically playing while they scroll.

How To Turn Off AutoPlay on Android and Smartphone

1. Launch your Twitter app and sign into your account.
2. Swipe right to open the side menu and click on “Settings and Privacy”.
3. Click on “Accessibility, display, and languages”.
4. Click on “Data Usage”.
5. Tap on “Video autoplay” and click on “Never”.

Turn Off Video AutoPlay in Twitter On Desktop Browser

1. Log in to Twitter
2. In the sidebar, select More
3. Select Settings and Privacy
4. In the Accessibility, display, and languages section, select Data Usage
5. In the Autoplay section, select the arrow
6. In Autoplay, enable Never

Steps to Turn Off AutoPlay on Mobile Browser

1. Sign into your account when you’re on the official website.
2. Swipe right or tap on your profile icon to open the left sidebar menu.
3. Under “Settings and support”, select “Settings and privacy”.
4. Tap on “Accessibility, display, and languages”.
5. Select “Data Usage” and click on “AutoPlay”, then select “Never”.

What is Twitter?

At the South By Southwest Interactive conference in 2007, more than 60,000 tweets were sent, which was a big sign of Twitter’s growth. The Twitter team used the conference to start getting more people to use Twitter. Twitter started out as an SMS-based platform, so the 140-character limit was there because it had to be. The limit was set by mobile carriers, not Twitter.

But as Twitter grew into a web platform, they kept the limit because it fit with Twitter’s brand: Twitter is a platform that tries to make content that is easy to skim in our tech-heavy, short-attention-span world. Over the past 10 or more years, Twitter has grown by leaps and bounds. Its main goal is to quickly spread information, which isn’t always important (like Kim Kardashian’s opinions on makeup), but sometimes it is (like when Iranian protesters used Twitter to organize marches).

How does Twitter work?

Twitter is a social networking site where you can post 140-character status updates called “tweets” that anyone who chooses to follow you can see. You can put links to other articles or videos in the tweet. You can also scroll through your Twitter home page to see what other people you are following are posting. For example, you can only use Twitter for work and choose to follow the top people in your field. You could also just follow comedians and use Twitter to make yourself laugh.

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