The new feature also groups the tweets mentioning the link underneath it.
The feature has rolled out to all Twitter users across iOS, Android, and web, stated the report on Saturday citing a Twitter spokesperson as saying.
The introduction of the new feature is in line with Twitter's move to switch its identity from "social networking" to a "news" app which now airs live news broadcasts alongside the Home timeline.
While it is highlighting news and tweets from journalists in its "explore" tab, Twitter is also experimenting with curated timelines around breaking news events, the report said.
Earlier this month, Twitter also stated that it was committed to ensuring that the information people receive on the site is credible and authentic.
This has become especially important in view of the fact that millions of people go to Twitter to learn about news and events unfolding in real-time in the aftermath of a tragedy.
"...Our goal is to provide support to people in times of crisis, and show people what matters most," Del Harvey, Twitter's Vice President for Trust and Safety said in a blogpost in the aftermath of the attack at YouTube headquarters.
"Over the past few months, we've refined our tools, improved the speed of our response, and identified areas where we can improve," Harvey added.
These moves, Twitter said, are aimed at preventing people from deliberately manipulating the conversation on Twitter in the immediate aftermath of tragedies like the attack at attack at YouTube headquarters.
The tweet by @nytimesworld - the account of the international reporting team -- had promoted an article about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's apology to indigenous people in two provinces.
The post read: "Left out of an apology a decade ago, native people in Newfoundland and Labrador get an apology from Justin Trudeau".
Taking cognisance of it, Twitter blocked @nytimesworld for 24 hours from Saturday till Sunday.
Twitter later restored the account, apologising "for any inconvenience this may have caused".
"After reviewing the account, it appears one of our agents made an error," Twitter told NYT late on Sunday.
The New York Times international reporting team uses Twitter to promote its coverage to nearly two million followers, usually posting 50 to 100 tweets a day.
Earlier in November, US President Donald Trump's Twitter account was brought down for 11 minutes.
Later, in a series of tweets issued by Twitter's Government and Elections team, they attributed this incident to a rogue employee on his last day in office.
Dubbed as 'SIREN', the fake botnet campaign was discovered by ZeroFOX, a Baltimore-based security firm specialising in social-media threat detection.
"To our knowledge, the botnet is one of the largest malicious campaigns ever recorded on a social network," ZeroFOX wrote in a blog post.
ZeroFOX's computer vision and natural language processing algorithms identified over 8,500,000 tweets from close to 90,000 accounts related to the 'SIREN' campaign.
"'SIREN' has been incredibly successful, netting over 30,000,000 clicks from its victims. This data can be gleaned because the botnet uses trackable, Google shortened URLs," ZeroFOX added.
ZeroFOX last week reported the findings to both the Twitter and Google security teams, who promptly removed the offending accounts and links, comprehensively remediating the 'SIREN' botnet.
All of the nearly 90,000 accounts had a suggestive photo of a woman as a profile picture and a female name as the display name.
The accounts either engaged directly with a target by quoting one of their tweets or attracting targets to the payload visible on their profile bio or pinned tweet.
The tweets themselves generally contained canned, sexually-explicit text, often in broken English, compelling the target to click, such as "you want to meet with me?" or "Push, don't be shy" [sic].
Once a link is clicked, the user is issued a series of redirects.
The final redirect websites encouraged the user to sign up for subscription pornography, webcam or fake dating websites.
"These types of websites, although legal, are known to be scams. Many of the websites' policies claim that the site owners operate most of the profiles," the blog post said.
A large percentage of the bots were female names with nude or semi-nude pictures.
In terms of the 'SIREN' actors themselves, a large chunk of the Twitter accounts' self-declared user languages were Russian.
"The poor English, Cyrillic text and sheer magnitude of the infrastructure is indicative that 'SIREN' is a group or actor that is technically proficient and probably located in the Eastern Block of Europe," ZeroFOX said.
The botnet is named after the mythical Greek Sirens, who seduced wayward sailors with their singing and lured them to their doom.
"It is going to be focused on the most important news for an intelligent audience around the globe and it's going to be broader in focus than our existing network," The Wall Street Journal quoted Justin Smith, Bloomberg Media's Chief Executive Officer, as saying.
The news service which is yet to be named will be supported by ads and Bloomberg will have control over the content of the feed.
The service is expected to go live later this year.
The service will be made up of live news reporting from the news outlet's bureaus around the world, as well as a curated and verified mix of video posted on Twitter by the social-media platform's users.
To stream tournaments and other e-sports events live, Twitter last month announced its partnership with ESL and Dreamhack -- two of the biggest organisations in the pro-gaming world.
Twitter has more than 15 events locked in for live-streaming this year, including Dreamhack tournaments and future IEM championships.
Available for both Android as well as iOS users, the feature was announced on the micro-blogging site itself late on Monday.
"It's easy to express yourself by re-tweeting with a comment. What if you could take it a step further and include media? Starting today, you can retweet with photos, a GIF, or a video to really make your reaction pop," Twitter Support posted.
The feature has also been made available on Twitter's mobile website.
"We found it was challenging for people to quickly understand all the content in a retweet with media. This was due to the layout; two large tweets stacked on top of each other," The Verge quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying.
As a solution, the micro-blogging site now puts the original tweet in a smaller, indented box with the user's avatar still visible, and it makes their media full width, the report added.
However, details about the desktop availability and functionality of this feature remain unclear as of now.
"If you're seeing this on a desktop browser, it's not going to look quite right. Hopefully Twitter will fix that before long," the report noted.
It is not the equivalent of a delete button but hides replies behind an icon.
If your followers still want to see the hidden replies, they can press the icon and view those.
"We're testing a feature to hide replies from conversations. This experience will be available for everyone around the world, but at this time, only people in Canada can hide replies to their tweets," Twitter Support posted late on Wednesday.
"They'll be hidden from the main conversation for everyone behind a new icon. As long as it hasn't been deleted and/or is not from an account with protected tweets, everyone can still interact with a hidden reply by clicking the icon to view," it added.
The aim, said Twitter, is to have healthy conversations on its platform.
There is, however, a downside to the feature.
"For example, a user could choose to hide replies that simply disagreed with their views. This would then create a 'filter bubble' where only people who shared the original poster's same opinion would have their comments prominently displayed," reports Tech Crunch.
A Twitter user can also hide replies that attempt to correct misinformation or offer a fact check.
However, for Twitter, "transparency is important to us -- that's why we're hiding the replies behind an icon where they can still be accessed. We want to give tweet authors control over their conversations, but in a way that's open".