If you tap on a link in a tweet right now, in Twitter’s official mobile app, you will be taken to the default browser of your smartphone. It can be a pain to switch back and forth between apps if you’re quickly trying to catch up on Twitter and it looks like the microblogging network is finally doing something about it. Users in the Twitter beta program are reporting that a browser is being tested in the app.
When Twitter finally decides to make this feature available to all users then the experience will be similar to what it is right now in Facebook’s official app. The app now has its own browser so Facebook users aren’t taken outside the app, links open up inside it.
Twitter appears to have made a server-side change to enable this feature for beta program members which means there isn’t an updated APK floating around online that Android users can install on their devices to take advantage of this feature as well.
Many popular third-party Twitter clients have built-in browsers but Twitter’s official mobile apps have always lacked this feature. As someone who spends a lot of time on this network every day I for one will appreciate when Twitter rolls out this change.