Twitter now allows you to embed tweets within tweets on iOS and Android
Twitter is experimenting with a brand new feature for users of its
iOS and Android apps - the ability to embed tweets within their tweets.
The
embedding tool, which could become an alternative to retweeting or
straight-up quoting tweets, can be enabled by copying the link to a
tweet you wish to embed and pasting it within the tweet you're
composing.
From there you must click the individual tweet itself
in order to see the embedded tweet. Oh, and it doesn't work on the web
either.
It may not be entirely straightforward, but the result is
the tweet appearing below your own a la a photo, video, vine or web-link
preview, rather than a URL link to the update.
Rethinking retweeting
Twitter
often tries out new features on a selection of its users before rolling
it out to the full crowd, so it's far from certain it'll become a
standard feature, however there are many good arguments for introducing
it.
For example, you'll often see users retweet a post, only to
follow it up with an "re: that last RT..." tweet, or quote a tweet only
to have very few characters left to add their own comment.
This feature, perhaps simplified with an embed option alongside retweet and quote, would solve both of those problems.
According to The Next Web, the feature is available as part of the latest update on iTunes and Android.
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