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I would like to see further experimentation with extensions and Tweetbot in the future – integration with the native document picker to choose files and share them with Tweetbot would be, for instance, a fantastic addition for power users. Linky proved that more powerful share sheets can be added to iOS, but Tapbots decided to go with the safest option for this 3.5 release. Unfortunately, support for extensions hasn’t been added in the opposite direction: you won’t find a Tweetbot share extension that lets you send tweets with Tweetbot from outside the app. This isn’t a deal breaker, but it stands out in an app whose design has been carefully considered. Because of Apple’s implementation of extensibility in iOS 8, Tweetbot now comes with two distinct action menus: the Tapbots one, and the share sheet. The second minor issue with extensions is consistency. Thankfully, Tapbots is injecting its own buttons into the share sheet: my beloved “Copy link to tweet” is still available in the row dedicated to action extensions.ĭifferent shades of Gray (and action sheets).

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I loved that little feature, but from a user’s perspective having full access to extensions trumps the attention to detail for tap & hold on URLs. Extensions can only be activated from the share sheet, and Tapbots can’t add a URL preview to it as it can’t be modified by apps. I used that feature all the time to understand if URLs were worth opening or not, and it’s gone in Tweetbot 3.5. If you tap & hold a long URL in the timeline, the contextual menu will intelligently resize the URL’s text to make it smaller so that you’ll be able to read the full URL without cut-off parts. Here’s one minor design detail that I mentioned in my review of Tweetbot 3: That, of course, comes with some trade-offs. Tweetbot has always been better than Twitter’s own app for opening webpages thanks to non-modal web views, but extensions take Tapbots’ app to the next level for processing tweets and links. I can tweet with Linky’s tweet panel inside Tweetbot if I want – a testament to the democratization of app features that extensions bring to iOS 8. If you follow recipe blogs, you could use the AnyList extension to save recipes to your account without leaving the app.

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With extensions available in my Twitter timeline, I can quickly save links to Pinner, archive them in Evernote, and even pin Twitter photos to Pinterest – tap & hold a tweet with photos, bring up the Pinterest extension, and it’ll scan the tweet for images.Īny read-later app can now be integrated natively with Tweetbot thanks to the share sheet. In testing Tweetbot 3.5, I’ve noticed that I now tend to use Twitter favorites less as temporary bookmarks and more as real favorites for tweets I like. I turned Twitter favorites into an inbox because it was hard to share links quickly on iOS.

Over the years, I developed a habit of marking tweets I found interesting as favorites so I could later go through all of them and manually bookmark them on Pinboard, add them to Evernote, or save them to other apps. Tweetbot featured support for Instapaper, but its integrations stopped at read-later services. I discover apps, products, and great reads thanks to Twitter, but neither the old Tweetbot or Twitter’s app allowed me to act on those links right away with no friction. I probably spend too much time on Twitter, but I can’t deny that the people and websites I follow give me a consistent amount of interesting links I use for articles, MacStories Weekly, and podcasting. Every time you tap & hold a tweet/link or hit the share icon in your timeline or a web view, Tweetbot 3.5 will open the iOS 8 share sheet. With iOS 8, Tapbots has decided to fully embrace extensions (abandoning the custom contextual menu they had built for Tweetbot 3) by switching to Apple’s share sheet for action and share extensions. What’s changing today in Tweetbot is the action menu for tweets and links. The app hasn’t changed considerably – it has evolved in expected ways and within the limitations imposed by Twitter’s API for third-party apps. Unfortunately, third-party apps can’t access the quick reply feature found in Apple’s Messages app: like Twitter, tapping the Reply button in a notification won’t let you reply immediately but it’ll take you to Tweetbot instead.įrom a visual perspective, Tweetbot 3.5 looks and works the same, keeping the foundation that Tapbots introduced with Tweetbot 3 last year. Tweetbot 3.5 looks great on the iPhone 6, and its new notifications allow me to quickly mark a tweet as favorite without opening the app.

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