Twitter knows you took a screenshot, asks you to share instead
Enlarge / Please don't take photos of tweets on this phone. Instead, consider that tweets are more valuable when you engage with them as URLs. (credit: Getty Images)
Twitter is seemingly working to remind people that interesting tweets are something you should click, load, and view while logged into the company's ad-funded service, not merely see in a screenshot. That's why some users are seeing a "Share Tweet?" pop-up whenever the Twitter app notices them taking a screenshot.
Social media analyst Matt Navarra noted the two kinds of nudge prompts in a tweet: "Copy link" and "Share Tweet." TechCrunch noted that some of its staff members were receiving the prompt and pointed to another tweet in which Twitter provided both "Copy link" and "Share Tweet" buttons.
As I was writing this, I checked my own Twitter app, took a screenshot of a tweet, and received the "Copy link" version. There's no "dismiss" option, but the pop-up tucks itself away after about seven seconds.