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Twitter seems to be ignoring the development of its website entirely. This is not the first feature that’s been exclusive to just the mobile apps: - Fleets, la

Twitter seems to be ignoring the development of its website entirely. This is not the first feature that’s been exclusive to just the mobile apps: - Fleets, launched months ago, is still app-only - Spaces, the Clubhouse clone, is also app-only. - Now Tipping. - Even the uncropped images that launched yesterday (for vertical images) is app-only.

paxys 6y ago
It makes sense when you consider that all the successful services they are copying (Instagram, Snapchat, Clubhouse) are app-only.
- captn3m0 6y ago
  Instagram stories (and IG in general) has been functional on the mobile web for more than 3 years: https://www.pcmag.com/news/post-instagram-stories-from-the-mobile-web https://www.pcmag.com/news/post-instagram-stories-from-the-m....
  - lazyasciiart 6y ago
    Kind of. There are still settings that are available only in the app, which I ran into recently - can't remember exactly what but eventually I gave up and installed the app.
  - capableweb 6y ago
    > Instagram stories (and IG in general) has been functional on the mobile web for more than 3 years Maybe that's geo-locked? When I visit instagram.com and log in I can only consume content, I cannot upload anything, normal posts nor stories. Edit: I realize now you said "mobile web" while I was thinking "web" in general and visit from my desktop. Seems weird it works on 1/2 of the web versions they have...
    - mavhc 6y ago
      At one point in time the hack to upload from the desktop was to make your window narrow so it though it was a phone.
tom_mellior 6y ago
Anyone using Twitter in the browser uses the Twitter website and sees the ads it serves. But many people using Twitter in an app use a third party app rather than the official one. These people don't see ads. If Twitter's goal is to get more ad views, exanding their share of the app market is more important than the web market that they control already.

paxys 6y ago

It makes sense when you consider that all the successful services they are copying (Instagram, Snapchat, Clubhouse) are app-only.

captn3m0 6y ago
Instagram stories (and IG in general) has been functional on the mobile web for more than 3 years: https://www.pcmag.com/news/post-instagram-stories-from-the-mobile-web https://www.pcmag.com/news/post-instagram-stories-from-the-m....
- lazyasciiart 6y ago
  Kind of. There are still settings that are available only in the app, which I ran into recently - can't remember exactly what but eventually I gave up and installed the app.
- capableweb 6y ago
  > Instagram stories (and IG in general) has been functional on the mobile web for more than 3 years Maybe that's geo-locked? When I visit instagram.com and log in I can only consume content, I cannot upload anything, normal posts nor stories. Edit: I realize now you said "mobile web" while I was thinking "web" in general and visit from my desktop. Seems weird it works on 1/2 of the web versions they have...
  - mavhc 6y ago
    At one point in time the hack to upload from the desktop was to make your window narrow so it though it was a phone.

tom_mellior 6y ago

Anyone using Twitter in the browser uses the Twitter website and sees the ads it serves. But many people using Twitter in an app use a third party app rather than the official one. These people don't see ads. If Twitter's goal is to get more ad views, exanding their share of the app market is more important than the web market that they control already.