Twitter's new image support means it can almost compete with 3rd-party appsAlmost.
Yesterday saw the news that Twitter is testing a new feature that will improve the way its iOS app handles images. Historically, the Twitter app has struggled with such things but that's going to change. And that means the app is finally becoming a viable alternative to the amazing third-party apps in the App Store.
Almost, anyway.
Twitter has long compressed the living heck out of images and the Twitter app often crops them in a way that just plain old ruins them. As of now though, Twitter is testing improvements that will deal with that – including support for images up to 4K in resolution.
Now testing on Android and iOS: when you Tweet a single image, how the image appears in the Tweet composer is how it will look on the timeline –– bigger and better. pic.twitter.com/izI5S9VRdX— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) March 10, 2021
I've long been a user of Tweetbot and I've recently been flirting with Aviary here and there, too. But as much as the Twitter app has...
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Twitter's new image support means it can almost compete with 3rd-party apps
