Now, if there are subtitles available, the button will appear in the upper right corner of the video, and Android/iOS users can freely choose to view it.
Twitter spokesperson ShaokyiAMDo In an email response, the company hopes the move will encourage more people to upload captioned videos to Twitter, and that the button will only appear on videos that already include captions, and is not associated with an automated captioning system.
The Verge used the example of a tweet from June 14 that embeds a trailer for a Netflix show (with a subtitle file attached).
However, in the early days of the launch, this video subtitle function is not perfect – for example, sometimes the subtitles cannot be played, and occasionally the video will be stuck after clicking the button.
