Off On A Tangent: AP Mobile iPhone App Does Social Media Sharing Right

View the story "AP Mobile iPhone App Does Social Media Sharing Right" on StorifyAP Mobile iPhone App Does Social Media Sharing RightThe AP Mobile iPhone App makes sharing on twitter easy by pre-filling in the text of the tweet for you. Here's how it works.Storified by Steve Garfield · Fri, Nov 02 2012 07:52:15Here's how it currently works in the browser when reading a news story.Washington Post StorystevegarfieldClick the SHARE icon and you get the iOS Social Media sharing screen.iPhone iOS Social Media SharingstevegarfieldWhen you click to tweet something, the default tweet is BLANK.
This means that you either have to type something into the tweet, or SELECT/COPY/PASTE text in from the thing you are tweeting. iOS TweetstevegarfieldWhen you tweet something, on a Mac, with most apps, the text of the item title that you are tweeting usually gets pre-filled for you.
The AP Mobile iPhone App is the first iPhone App I've used that does it right. Here's a story in the App,AP News AppstevegarfieldTime out: I clicked the GEAR ICON to change my display from black to white. ;-)AP News App - WhitestevegarfieldWe're back.
After clicking the SHARE icon, the social media sharing page comes up, with pre-filled text of the story I was reading.
That's nice.
I clicked to tweet it, and got a little green check mark when the tweet went out.AP News App - SharedstevegarfieldHere's the tweet.AP News - Markets buoyed by upbeat US jobs news http://apne.ws/U2IMBDSteve GarfieldThanks AP for making sharing easy. ;-)

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Friday, November 02, 2012

AP Mobile iPhone App Does Social Media Sharing Right

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