Facebook is trying to ride the wave of interest in videos by allowing users to upload videos into their comments and replies.

Bob Baldwin, an engineer at Facebook, announced in a blog post on Thursday that the company is letting users post video in their comments on other peoples’ posts.

The new feature is available worldwide immediately.

To try it, click the camera icon next to the comment field.

“This adds to the suite of multimedia features within comments including: links, photos, stickers, emoji, and starting today video,” Baldwin wrote in his post. “This was no small feat to add support across interfaces and within two heavy traffic services, like comments and videos.”

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