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For a long time Twitter assumed if you wanted to share a tweet, you would just tweet it to your followers or friends. The problem with that was there still a large number of people out there who aren’t on Twitter that you might want to share with. Twitter has finally announced new a sharing option that will help keep friends not on Twitter in the loop.
If you’re an avid Twitter user who comes across something that you would like to share with a friend who isn’t on Twitter, you can now do that with e-mail sharing. Twitter announced the availability of e-mail sharing yesterday. Before this feature, one of the only ways to share a tweet with someone not on the service was to take a screen shot and e-mail that or post it to another service such as Facebook.
Twitter says access the new e-mail sharing option all you need to do is click the “More” icon next to the reply on the Twitter interface. The e-mail sharing allows you to add your own comment before you share.
The e-mail your friend receives will have your comments and the tweet in one message. The sharing service will allow you to share any tweet, even if it has a photo attached. I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who have been clamoring for an e-mail share option for a long time and it’s finally here.
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Facebook might have a spanking new mobile share button, so it goes without saying that Twitter does not want to get left behind in the novelty stakes where the hundreds of millions of users of both social networks (although others might say that Twitter is a micro blogging tool instead) are in fierce competition with. Having said that, Twitter has just opened up the doors to their “Share this tweet via email” option which is pretty much self explanatory – basically, this new function allows you to send content to less tech savvy folks. The button will make its appearance in the ‘more’ menu alongside reply, favorite, and retweet. If you were to sit down and digest the implications of this particular option, it might be a powerful method to spread the service as well as convince fence sitters to sign up.
If you do not see this option appear on your Twitter account just yet, be patient. Twitter has said that the service will be rolling out in stages over the coming few weeks. Twitter mentioned that “sometimes you want to share with another group, like your college roommates or your parents or a friend who isn’t yet on Twitter.” Clicking the button on the web will see an in-line email composer appear, while on mobile devices it appears as your native email app pop up. Interested?
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Twitter has been on a mission to bring more of its expanded tweet content to the mobile world, and most recently lavished attention on the iPad. It’s carrying that campaign to a much wider mix of screens: an update to the Android and iPhone apps gives them article summary and photo preview cards whenever they either search for tweets or browse through the Discover tab, all without having to tap the post first. Photos in the reworked search have likewise moved to the top by default to help track down that elusive concert photo. Web users aren’t being left out of Twitter’s latest update frenzy, either. The social network is tucking an option into the “more” section of each tweet that lets us email a pristine-looking copy to anyone who isn’t part of Twitter’s flock. All of the features are available to try immediately in the relevant official clients, which should make life grand for those of us who want more than just a wall of text in our search results.
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