Friday, March 8, 2013

ABC News App - Twitter Sharing not working on Kindle Fire

Date: 03/09/2013

Description:

I've played around with the ABC News App for Kindle Fire a couple times now, and i've enjoyed it.

I was reading an article today, and tried to tweet out the story from inside the Kindle Fire app.

Twitter sharing does NOT appear to be working.  If you click on a Twitter icon from a story, an error message appears that reads, "An error occurred please try again later."

Download the iOS version and twitter sharing works fine.

ABC News - please fix twitter sharing in the Kindle Fire version of the ABC News app.

Steps to get this issue:
1.  Download the ABC News App for the Kindle Fire
2.  Go to any news story in the ABC News App
3.  Click on the twitter option for any news story
4.  Note the error message of, "An error occurred please try again later."

Result:  Twitter sharing does not appear to be working with the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire

Expected:  Twitter sharing should work from within the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire

Go to any news story in the ABC News app for the Kindle Fire.

The "Facebook" icon works fine, as does the e-mail icon.  But if you click on the Twitter icon.....

Nothing happens!  You just get this error message.  Twitter sharing works fine with the iOS ABC News app.