Sharing Content on the iPhone: A Plea for Universal Twitter
By John C Abell
One of my favorite iPhone apps is Instapaper, because it let’s me put a pin in something I want to read without leaving the bomb run of surfing for things that I might want to read when I have time later (ha!). I even warily bought the pricey version ($9.99) because the free one had so much promise, and little did I know that the best feature of the upgrade was a unique feature called tilt scroll which — which every other e-reader should do, by the way, but that is a screed for another day.
Then my favorite iPhone Twitter app, Tweetie, incorporated a feature which leveraged Instapaper by storing any link in a Tweet to my account in one click — brilliant! Now I can plow through a gazzilion messages and vet the shared URLs later when I am in reading and not harvesting mode, on the iPhone or on the web.
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