Twitter share button opens two tabs on Safari

Question

I'm using the following URL to share the page on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=POST_TITLE&POST_URL&via=akhbar

It works fine with all browsers and mobile devices, except Safari, it opens:

• One tab with the previous URL, but adds the following parameter to the end of the URL: &original_referer=POST_URL
• A new window (that shows the Tweet composer) with the original share button's URL.

Why does this happen on Safari? And how to avoid this?

Answer 1

I've solved this by changing the Twitter share URL to this:

https://twitter.com/share?url=POST_URL&via=akhbar&text=POST_TITLE

But I've no idea what are the differences between intent and share, and why that was happening with the old URL.