Twitter for iOS Updated With In-Line Video and Image Previews

Yeah, but can you direct message links again, or is that still a "glitch"?

I'm not enjoying this new look. They've added labels under each tweet instead of swiping to reply, retweet, favourite etc. It looks rather messy and untidy.
I'm sure I'll get used to it though!

No inline images on iPad version?

I updated my iPad app version, but don't see the "Show Image Preview" option... hence, no in-line images on my iPad.

iPhone update works OK...

I never got the allure of Twitter. It just seems so stupid to me.... you're wasting your time reading useless soundbites from others, and are posting idiotic details of your own life that nobody cares about at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO2T2aCELw

Bring back twitlonger integration then we will see an improvement.

kunai said:

I never got the allure of Twitter. It just seems so stupid to me.... you're wasting your time reading useless soundbites from others, and are posting idiotic details of your own life that nobody cares about at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO2T2aCELw

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Because that's all that it's for, especially these days.

Does the twitter app sync your position with iCloud? This along with no image previews are the reasons I stopped using it. I'm happily using tweetbot now so I wont be going back but just curious if they ever added syncing.

What an awful update, from a company I literally didn't think could make a worse app.

Nice update. Picture previews were long overdue for iOS.

For the person above who doesn't "get" twitter,
I suggest you try it. I use it as my primary source of news and I rarely if ever tweet. It's terrific for that purpose, much better than just visiting a website. Your twitter feed can be adapted to all of your interests.

I don't like having the reply buttons in the main feed.

Picture previews yes! Reply, favorite, re tweet icons always visible, NOOOOO!

Inline previews. Sounds familiar. Possibly another popular, recently updated app?

WillFisher said:

I'm not enjoying this new look. They've added labels under each tweet instead of swiping to reply, retweet, favourite etc. It looks rather messy and untidy.
I'm sure I'll get used to it though!

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Agreed, messy!

I was able to revert back through iTunes. A good reason to turn auto download/updates off. Then had to disable notifications for the App Store on my phone so the red bubble would go away.

Pictures are ok...but those buttons below EVERY post is awful.

And it's still one of the worst twitter apps available. TweetBot3 is hands down the best.

What's the issue with having the "buttons" below every post? Is it simply just the looks of it, or is there something more to it?

Belmont31R said:

I don't like having the reply buttons in the main feed.

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They literally halved the amount of tweets on the screen to introduce these (and they were always a single swipe or tap away).

C DM said:

What's the issue with having the "buttons" below every post?

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Because it is a complete waste of space and is ugly. You don't perform actions on every tweet. They should do like every other client and only show those actions when you select that tweet (or add swipe to view actions).

And the image previews are huge. If you get two in a row in your stream you can only see about 1.5 tweets on the screen at once. Twitter really doesn't know how to develop a mobile client. Luckily there are alternatives until they kill them off.

bozzykid said:

Because it is a complete waste of space and is ugly. You don't perform actions on every tweet. They should do like every other client and only show those actions when you select that tweet (or add swipe to view actions).

And the image previews are huge. If you get two in a row in your stream you can only see about 1.5 tweets on the screen at once. Twitter really doesn't know how to develop a mobile client. Luckily there are alternatives until they kill them off.

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Well, for image previews at least you should be able to turn those off if you want to in settings. As for buttons/actions, perhaps it's part of how Twitter would like to indirectly push people to actually perform more actions--retweet things, favorite them, follow people easily, etc. They do take up a bit more space though. On the other hand, various other services/apps that have feeds (like Facebook, Instagram, Vine, etc.) do have various action buttons right with the posts in the feed as well, so it's not that strange of an idea--perhaps for Twitter in particular it is, which has mostly been text and short text at that, so maybe this is part of the evolution of the service/app (which, of course, not everyone will agree with).

C DM said:

Well, for image previews at least you should be able to turn those off if you want to in settings.

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Sure, you can do that already in the settings. Although I am going to stick with Tweetbot 3. It is just hard to go back to the stock app after using something like Tweetbot or Twitterific. Twitter still doesn't have the ability to get to lists easily and their "previews" only work with services they own.

Fired up the app and saw an obnoxious Kia image inline with a Kia Promoted Tweet. Proceeded to turn off image previews right away.

Infinitewisdom said:

Nice update. Picture previews were long overdue for iOS.

For the person above who doesn't "get" twitter,
I suggest you try it. I use it as my primary source of news and I rarely if ever tweet. It's terrific for that purpose, much better than just visiting a website. Your twitter feed can be adapted to all of your interests.

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Ditto, my twitter followers are setup so i never watch the news, video games news, weather, or sports news. Get it all in one spot. I myself switch between all the major twitter players, tweetbot, twitteric, twitter app. Going with tweetbot for now.

Remember the time when Twitter for iOS was better than Facebook?

kunai said:

I never got the allure of Twitter. It just seems so stupid to me.... you're wasting your time reading useless soundbites from others, and are posting idiotic details of your own life that nobody cares about at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBO2T2aCELw

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Sociologists will tell you that people have an innate need to communicate with others. It's just that nowadays, we are too busy/lazy to get together the old-fashioned way. Having said that, you're not alone, I don't tweet either, and I know for a fact, there are a few others out there who don't. (But I do spend waaay too much time on MR, lol)