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Posted: 18 Feb 2022 12:46 PM PST

If iMessage sliced off both ends of your tweets, you’re not alone - The Verge

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 03:42 PM PST

On Thursday, I wrote that Twitter was having a rough February after experiencing issues for the second time in a week, and on Friday, the company was dealing with a strange iMessage bug. If you were on an Apple device and texting a tweet to your buddy on an Apple device, the first and last characters in the tweet wouldn't show up. As reported by 9to5Mac, tweet previews sent via iMessage seemed to be missing the first and last characters of the tweet, making them read oddly.

Myself and another Verge writer experienced this bug as well. Here's how Apple's Messages app on my iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch displayed a tweet I wrote yesterday:

And here's what the tweet I made yesterday actually looked like:

When reached for comment, Twitter spokesperson Stephanie Cortez originally said the bug seemed to have been fixed, but it turns out that wasn't the case — Cortez said shortly after we first published this article that the company was aware of the issue and looking into a fix. When I checked late Friday evening, the bug was fixed for me on all of my devices. Apple didn't reply to a request for comment.

Update February 18th, 10:15PM ET: The bug is fixed for me on my devices.

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Shortwave is a new Google Inbox-inspired email app - XDA Developers

Posted: 18 Feb 2022 08:34 AM PST

Google left many people disappointed in 2019 when the company shut down Inbox by Gmail (also known as Google Inbox), an email application that connected to Gmail and organized your messages in easy-to-read bundles. Several other email apps and services have implemented similar functionality, but now what might be the closest imitator has arrived: Shortwave.

Shortwave (via Android Police) looks nearly identical to Inbox, with a list of email messages bundled by their conversation or topic. The official website says, "Threads are automatically categorized and bundled together to keep you organized by default. Want to customize things? Re-organize with drag 'n drop or use notification settings to control what enters your inbox."

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Shortwave is backed by a company of the same name, based in San Francisco. Some of the staff previously worked at Google — Shortwave's CEO Andrew Lee was Firebase's co-founder, CPO Jacob Wenger and CTO Jonny Dimond were core developers at Firebase, founding designer Ali Berlin Johnson was a senior UX designer at Google, and so on.

Besides sorting your emails, Shortwave also has markdown support when drafting emails, an option to pin important emails/groups to the top of the screen, a snooze feature (just like regular Gmail), and a few other improvements. However, there are some catches right now — it only connects to Gmail accounts, the desktop version is a website, and the Android app is just a web wrapper. Shortwave told Android Police that it hopes to completely rebuild the Android app to be a native application, but there's no telling when that will be ready.

Software developers have to eat too, so Shortwave is a paid service — it can access the past 90 days of your Gmail messages for free, but if you want to access older messages, you'll need to pay up. The standard plan costs $9 per person per month (Shortwave hopes businesses will be the main customers), so if you want to relive the golden days of Inbox, it will cost about two-thirds of a Netflix subscription.

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