It’s a big day for two major social media companies. SnapChat and Twitter have both unveiled new features which’ll change the way you use their services.

First up, SnapChat has unveiled a new “Discover” platform which lets you watch content from select publishers including CNN, Comedy Central, ESPN, People Magazine, National Geographic, and Yahoo News.

The various publishers – 11 in total – will publish videos in a new “Discover” tab offering up the latest news, television show clips, and more. After tapping on a channel you’re interested in, you’ll be able to swipe left to flip through the various stories that the publisher has released that day. Just like your friend stories, the publisher stories will last 24 hours.

The video below offers a little more insight. Discover should be available on SnapChat beginning later today, but there’s one catch: There are ads with these videos.

Second, Twitter has launched two big features which will help them compete with social media competitors like SnapChat and Facebook.

The first feature is group messaging which allows you to speak with up to 20 people in a private chat. This’ll be helpful to those who start a group conversation on their public Twitter feed but wish to continue their talk privately. You can start group conversations with anyone who follows you, and thankfully all participants in the group chat don’t have to follow one another in order to participate. By comparison, one-on-one direct messaging is only allowed between people who follow each other.

Twitter has also added a camera feature to its app which will let users – for the first time – easily record video to post to their timeline. The advantage of Twitter’s video feature is that you’ll be able to watch the videos right within your feed, unlike videos from other social media sites.

The video war has been a long battle for Twitter. After Facebook purchased Instagram in 2012, Twitter purposely stopped videos posted via Instagram from appearing in the feed because they’re fierce competitors, while videos from Twitter’s company Vine have worked within the feed splendidly.

Neil Patrick Harris was the first person to get access to Twitter’s new video feature this morning. He used it to make an Oscar-related announcement: