The latest Xbox Insider update has reportedly removed the ability to post videos you’ve just recorded to the “birdy” social platform.

Windows Central has reported that the new firmware that arrived on Friday (it’s an Xbox Insider build) has removed Twitter from the Xbox dashboard, so you can’t post videos to that social site. Instead, Twitter has been moved to a mobile sharing option with other social media platforms, making it much more complicated for users to share videos.

We’ll explain why: users must first upload the videos they want to share on Twitter to their mobile phones, and only then publish the videos, which are usually limited to two minutes and twenty seconds, adding an extra unnecessary step to the process. We don’t know why Microsoft has decided to do this. Still, as Windows Central pointed out, the Redmond company likely chose to do this because of “low usage”, which is often the reason why the “green team” removes features (as a side note, Twitter video sharing is still running smoothly on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch).

In November, Jason Ronald, Xbox’s director of program management, said: “I will say that Game DVR is the one area – the capture and share experience – that I wish we could make more progress [on] this year than we were able to. It is a priority for us. We hear the feedback. We have made some changes, and we have made some improvements to the reliability and the quality of the captures, but we know we still have work to do here. So that is a priority for us and something that we will continue to iterate on.

You know, the best thing I can recommend is if you’re not in the [Xbox] Insider rings, get on the Insider rings so that as we bring new capabilities and improvements, we want that feedback to know where we’re meeting the bar, and where we’re not meeting the bar. But definitely, message heard, and as I said, it’s an area that I wish were able to make more progress this year than we did, but it will be a priority for 2022.”

That comment doesn’t line up with the Twitter change, though!

Source: VGC