At a Glance

Expert’s Rating

Pros

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• One of the world's largest video sites, serving the best videos, funniest movies and clips.
• When the gloves come off, the mask goes on. Joe Biden tweeted a meme showing President Trump removing his face mask upon his arrival at the White House late Monday after his treatment for COVID-19.

• Super-easy way to tweet trimmed segment from any QuickTime video
• Final Cut Pro X and OS X sharing extension support
• Works with multiple Twitter accounts

Cons

• Videos currently limited to 30 seconds (Twitter limitation)
• Trim handles lack precision with videos longer than 15 minutes
• Rendering inconsistencies with older 4:3 videos
• No audible feedback when tweet is sent

Our Verdict

VideoTweet takes the drudgery out of sharing QuickTime videos on Twitter from an easy-to-use app, Final Cut Pro X, or your favorite OS X sharing extension-friendly software.

Twitter is great for sharing short bursts of information with followers, but the official Mac app is restrictive when it comes to videos—files must be progressive, no larger than 15MB in size, and on it goes. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just open a video, select the best part, and tweet without having to worry about all those specifications?

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That’s exactly what VideoTweet does. This free app for OS X Yosemite and later allows Twitter users to open any QuickTime compatible video, use trim handles to quickly select the segment you want to share, compose the accompanying text, then send your message to the world. Tweets automatically include a #VideoTweet hashtag and product link, but this can be permanently removed by purchasing a €3 (approximately $3.33) license.

Aside from Twitter’s usual 160-character limitation (116 including video link), videos must be between 0.5 and 30 seconds. (The developer is hard at work on an update that increases the duration to Twitter’s new limit of 140 seconds.) VideoTweet warns you when the selection is too long, in which case only the first 30 seconds will be uploaded.

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After authenticating via web browser with an existing Twitter account, there are no settings to fiddle with. Multiple accounts are supported (click the avatar to switch between them), and VideoTweet handles all compression and formatting to the social network’s exacting specifications. The app installs an OS X sharing extension and Final Cut Pro X destination, making it easy to share directly from your favorite software.

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I did find it somewhat cumbersome to trim videos over 15 minutes long; there’s no way to mark in and out points, zoom into a selected area for greater precision, or slide the trimmed region to another part of the same video. VideoTweet also shifted the framing of older content shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, leaving a bit of excess black along the right edge, but worked great with modern 16:9 digital video.

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Bottom line

VideoTweet is a slick, hassle-free way to share videos on Twitter in a few clicks of the mouse.

© Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable with governors on the reopening of America's small businesses, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump’s tweets after the company determined it violated its policies on manipulated media.

The president tweeted a doctored version of a popular video that went viral in 2019, which showed a black and a white toddler hugging. In the version Trump shared, the video has been edited with ominous music and a fake CNN headline that says, “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby.”

“Racist baby probably a Trump voter,” the headline then says in a subsequent screen.

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020

The video then cuts to the original clip of the children hugging, and then cuts to the message “America is not the problem. Fake news is.”

The video received at least 3.8 million views, and more than 75,000 retweets.

“This tweet has been labeled per our synthetic and manipulated media policy to give people more context,” Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough said.

This is only the third time that the company has announced that it would take action against one of the president’s tweets. Twitter has previously appended labels to a pair of Trump’s tweets that made misleading claims about mail-in ballots, as well as another post that said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” for violating its terms on violence.

Trump lashed out at Twitter after the company’s initial decision to label his tweets regarding the mail-in ballots, signing an executive order that week that sought to punish social media companies by calling on federal regulators to reexamine a key legal shield that gives tech companies broad immunity for the posts and photos people share on their services.

Twitter’s decision to label the tweets is the culmination of a series of quiet and incremental processes intended to dismantle a long-standing exception that the social media industry has made for the speech of politicians. Social media companies are under increased pressure to moderate content on their websites — especially from the Oval Office — as concerns mount about misinformation amid the coronavirus pandemic and the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

In March, Twitter also applied a similar manipulated media warning to a video tweeted by White House social media director Dan Scavino, which Trump retweeted.

The manipulated video Trump tweeted Thursday remains unlabeled on Facebook, where it received more than 100,000 likes and more than 26,000 shares. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether it planned to take similar action against the video.

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the president’s previous posts haven’t violated the company’s policies, drawing ire internally from employees.

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Twitter previously labeled Trump’s tweet on fraudulent mail-in ballots with a label that says, “Get the facts about mail-in ballots.“ It redirects users to news articles about Trump’s unsubstantiated claim.

For the tweet that called for violence during the protests, Twitter added a gray box that now hides the tweet from public view unless a user clicks on it that reads: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.” The move also prevented other users from liking the president’s tweet or sharing it without appending comment.

“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump tweeted late last month, adding, “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.'