Twitter has added a new compose button to its official mobile app for iOS that's designed for one-handed scrolling and tweet composing.

Located in the bottom right of the Twitter interface, the new floating icon can be tapped to start composing a tweet.

twitter new compose button
Meanwhile, a 3D Touch or long press gesture on the button causes three options to fan out in a radial menu that includes quick access to drafts, images/videos and the GIF gallery.

Elsewhere, Twitter has announced new tools for users to report spam. The standard Report Tweet options remain as usual, but flagging a suspicious or spam tweet offers the following additional options:

  • The account tweeting this is fake.
  • Includes a link to a potentially harmful, malicious, or phishing site.
  • The hashtags included seem unrelated.
  • Uses the reply function to spam.
  • It's something else.

In addition to the above, Twitter has started testing an option to quickly access a classic reverse chronological timeline, as promised back in September. The feature, currently only available to a small number of users, comes in the form new icon in the top right of the interface providing a shortcut to switch between the latest and "top" tweets in the feed.

twitter chronological
Once the feature officially rolls out, it should allay user frustration with Twitter's curated selection of tweets, which often includes a mishmash of relatively old tweets, ads, and tweets your friends like.

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Top Rated Comments

levitynyc Avatar
86 months ago
What a horrible app.

Tweetbot was perfect except they removed most of the good features due to the Twitter API changing.

They won’t do anything about bullying or harassment, add an “edit” feature, but hey, let’s consider removing the “like button”
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Rogifan Avatar
86 months ago
So they add a floating compose button when it was perfectly fine where it was. If they want to move all the controls to the bottom for one handed ease of use with big phones fine but get rid of this floating buttons crap.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
H3LL5P4WN Avatar
86 months ago
If I wanted to use a craptastic android app, I'd use a craptastic android phone. This material design button needs to go.

At the very least, the button needs to disappear when you scroll.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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