Twitter Makes It Easier to Share Tweets to Instagram Stories

[MacRumors]

Twitter on iOS now enables users to easily share tweets directly to Instagram through a Story, rather than having to screenshot and post tweets onto the platform.

A new "Instagram Stories" option will appear for iOS users within the Twitter share sheet for a specific tweet. By pressing it, users are redirected to Instagram Stories with an unclickable sticker of that specific tweet. While the new method is useful for users, its limitation of not linking to the specific tweet makes the true cross-platform sharing experience a continued annoyance for users.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1407422212873859075

Twitter began testing the new option with a select number of iOS users in December and it's now available to all iOS users. Twitter has not yet commented on when the new feature will be available for Android users.

Article Link: Twitter Makes It Easier to Share Tweets to Instagram Stories

 

[LFC2020]

Great, one garbage company can send garbage to another garbage company. 🤦‍♂️

 

[duanepatrick]

This feature is actually good for someone who likes to share tweets.

PS: not me tho

 

[cardfan]

Great, one garbage company can send garbage to another garbage company. 🤦‍♂️

That about sums it up.

 

[kc9hzn]

Back when I actually used Twitter and back when iOS 8 was new, one of the reasons I used third party Twitter apps (besides regex filtering) was that they had support for the system share sheet (I wanted to be able to save articles to Pocket). I also wanted them to use SafariWebView when Apple introduced it.

I see that the official app still doesn’t use the system share sheet and likely uses its own custom web view still. So how about Twitter and Facebook support the system share sheet in their apps so they don’t have to do things like this and can instead support sharing content to any application the user has installed? Oh wait, using the system features means they can’t vacuum up as much consumer data anymore, so of course there goes user experience.

 

[MisterSavage]

Take a drink every time someone posts "I don't use social media" in this thread.

 

[Deguello]

Take a drink every time someone posts "I don't use social media" in this thread.

Alcohol poisoning is serious business.

 

[kc9hzn]

Alcohol poisoning is serious business.

Make it water, then. It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and I’m sure we could all do better at keeping hydrated.

(Though water toxicity is a thing…)