By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | March 30, 2022 11:31:55 am With this new feature in testing, YouTube is inching further into Instagram’s territory. (Image credit: YouTube) YouTube is experimenting with a timed reactions feature that will allow users to share a reaction—a smiley or confetti emoji etc.—at an exact moment in the video they are viewing. In a blog post, the company said that it is experimenting with the new feature after receiving positive feedback about another similar beta feature: timed comments. When a user watches a video that is part of the experiment, they can react and see crowd reactions by opening the video’s comment section and going into the reaction panel. The test will also show viewers what moments other viewers are reacting to but in an anonymised fashion. YouTube is testing multiple sets of reactions and will proceed to add or remove reactions based on how the experiment goes. In April 2021, YouTube had begun testing a feature allowing users to make and view comments timed to a specific moment in the video they are watching to “help provide more context but also to show where the best conversation is happening in the video.” In…
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YouTube experimenting with timed reactions on some videos – The Indian Express
