I was expecting this to be something like oneshot, but for desktop. but from the screenshots it looks like you can only highlight quotes that would fit in a tweet. is that right?
@_jacksmith I thought the same thing and got excited. Buffer's Chrome extension already supports sharing quotes so I'm a little confused what this is for.
@rrhoover@_jacksmith Honestly, didn't know the buffer functionality existed so this was meant to be something more. In hindsight though, it's just a slight UI improvement that I still believe buffer should consider, if anything.
@afhill From what I understand, you can do the same exact thing with the extension – just highlight text and press Alt+B. This is weird in that buffering the text opens a new tab. It seems slower and more clunky.
@caspertek@afhill So ya, when we first made this, it was because "why haven't buffer did this yet?" Which quickly became "why is this feature hidden on buffers app?"
It wasn't very obvious, but yes, this is pretty much just a UI change in hindsight.
Since the announcement of 10k character limit on tweets there has been back and forth on people liking and disliking the idea. I'm leaning towards the latter but ultimately if my experience of Twitter is pretty similar I'm likely not to be bothered by it.
@jack shared a screenshot about his thoughts on the character limit and Twitter as a whole. I actually like sharing screenshots, but this experience could be improved hugely. I was thinking yesterday, why doesn't Twitter add 'notes' where you can write those 10k characters but easily share highlights with a screenshot... but then I thought, @ev has done that with @Medium 🤔
@bentossell dude, we were thinking the same thing about the screenshot tool. We've already begun to make a quick prototype of a very basic click and drag, tweet, 1-2 step version. Do you want me to let you know once thats around? Most likely going to be going up on PH :)
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