I guess Instagram’s doing something to figure out who the requester is.Īnother advantage of Tweetbot is the simplicity of its timeline. I’m not exactly sure how they manage that, as I thought anyone could get a direct link to an Instagram photo. Harshil Shah alerted me last night that I got my snits backward. Many of the people I follow use Instagram, and it’s a pain to have to tap links and wait for Twitter’s in-app browser to open up the page.
They’re still cropped, mind you, but at least they’re there. Tweetbot, having no political ax to grind, displays Instagram photos directly in the timeline. Twitter is still apparently in a snit over losing out to Facebook on the purchase of Instagram, so it shows only the URLs of Instagram photos. One set of images it’s not superior at is those that come from Instagram.
I mentioned above that Twitter is superior at presenting certain images. Accessing cards is, as best I can tell, not part of the Twitter REST API and not likely to become part of it.ĭespite these advantages for Twitter, I’m going back to Tweetbot because the balance of features and presentation still tilts in its direction. This is something I fear Tweetbot will never catch up with. It’s nice to see a little description and (usually) an image from the linked page instead of just a truncated URL. Twitter is also better at presenting links to web pages that have implemented Twitter Cards. Twitter still does some cropping, so it’s not what I’d really like to see, but its presentation of images is something I’m going to miss. Tweetbot, by contrast, is still cropping severely, and the browsing experience is distinctly worse because of it. The new Twitter eliminates some of that tapping by presenting most images at or near their native aspect ratios. I even tapped images that were wide rectangles to expand them, because there was no way to know if they were cropped or not.
I suppose the idea was to conserve vertical space so more tweets could fit onscreen, but all it did was force me to tap on the images so I could see what I was missing. Twitter for iOS is distinctly better than Tweetbot in two areas: the presentation of (certain) images and the presentation of (certain) linked web pages.įor reasons I’ve never understood, Twitter clients have a tradition of displaying images inside a wide rectangle, cropping the image if necessary to make it fit. At any rate, Twitter’s baby blue branding is still there, but only in the button icons, which are on a more palatable white background. Now that I think of it, it’s Twitterrific’s color choices that have kept me away from it, too, so maybe I’m more sensitive than I’d like to admit. I don’t think of myself as especially sensitive, but whenever I tried out Twitter in the past, that color would drive me away in less than a day. To me, the biggest improvement to Twitter 1 on iOS is getting rid of that hideous baby blue band from the top of the home timeline. The iOS app has certainly improved, especially with the most recent version released last week, but after five or six days of experimentation I’m returning to the comfort and convenience of Tweetbot. I’ve been trying out the official Twitter app on both my iPhone and my Mac.
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