Mobile Safari in iOS 7 introduced a number of new and interesting changes to the way users browse the web and access information. One such feature you may not be familiar with is dubbed "Shared Links."
"Shared Links" allows you to quickly and seamlessly scroll through all of the links in your Twitter feed directly from within the Safari app. All in all, this provides a superior and more efficient way to peruse your Twitter links.
Here's how it all works.
Open up Safari and tap the Bookmarks icon located towards the bottom of the screen.
This brings you to the "Shared Links" pane. From here, select the "@" tab located in the upper right hand portion of the screen.
You are then presented with all of the links from your Twitter feed. Note that only tweets containing embedded URLs show up here. Think of it as a streamlined Twitter feed.
If I tap on one of the entries, I'm immediately whisked away to the desired URL, in this case an article from the WSJ tweeted out by the Huffington Post.
As I scroll down, the end of the article lets me know where the next tweet is from, in this case a tweet from Bomani Jones about NCAA athletes unionizing.
If I keep scrolling downwards, that story soon takes center stage.
When I get to the end of this article, the next Twitter link is already there waiting for me.
And so on and so forth.
Altogether, this is a great way to browse through your Twitter feed if you're actually looking to do some web browsing. Not only does the scrolling provide a seamless way to jump from story to story, it's always typically more enjoyable to browse in Safari than with Twitter's built-in browser.
One final point: even though you scroll downwards in order to access new Twitter links, be aware that you cannot scroll back up to revisit stories you've already read. Instead, simply swipe to the right as you would normally do in Safari.
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