Twitter's latest app update to Android and iOS is very meta: Mobile users can now embed tweets within tweets.
For users that want to reference a previous tweet (whether their own or someone else's tweet), it's now possible to embed it within a new tweet, so it shows up in a pretty package instead of just a link.
To do so, just copy and paste the link to an older tweet into a new one. The link will automatically populate into an embed and can be tweeted out accordingly.
Unfortunately, this currently only works on mobile. When you look at the tweet on the web, the link (not the embed) appears. See below; it looks the same as it usually does.
Testing tweet within a tweet here: https://t.co/LTHF7u9x2k (this will only look different if you're reading this on a mobile device)
— Sam Murphy Kelly (@HeySamantha) June 16, 2014
The embed feature may be a small touch, but it's smart packaging, making it clean for easy browsing and letting users see what you're referring to without needing to click a link. Let's hope it makes its way to the desktop soon, too.
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