Tweed is a new Twitter app for the iPad that’s got a unique approach – it’s just for reading links and effectively using Twitter as your news feed. Here’s a little slice of its App Store intro:
Read your favorite news, opinion and blog sites and sites recommended by people you follow on Twitter. Even if you don’t use Twitter, you can enjoy timely news and opinion articles from our Suggested feed of noteworthy sources.
I tried it out last night, and I think it’s quite an interesting and promising app. Twitter is very often the best place to spot all the freshest breaking news, whether it’s about a war, a natural disaster, or just some exciting technology news. Tweed makes it easier to use Twitter to just follow news. It’s definitely not a replacement for your favorite Twitter app, but it’s very useful for those of us who see Twitter as a great news resource.
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Twitter, the official Twitter app for the iPad and iPhone, has been updated this week – and has added the ability to launch links in tweets in an inline browser.
There are no other notable changes in this latest update, to Version 3.3.4 – just unspecified accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
The new link launching feature is quite a nice one. It’s certainly a quicker way to see if a link is interesting when it’s a shortened link and the tweet text doesn’t reveal much about it.
Here’s an App Store link for Twitter; it’s a free app and a universal app, designed to work on both iPad and iPhone.
The official Twitter app for iPad and iOS got another update yesterday, to Version 3.3.2.
The big new feature is support for uploading photos and videos taken with the iPad 2 along with your tweets.
I just tried this out a little and had success. I tested with two videos from the iPad 2:
– First I tried one of just under two minutes in length that was already in my Camera Roll on the iPad 2. This took ages (8-9 minutes) to upload and show the tweet, then another few minutes to process the video on yfrog.com.
– Then I shot a quick video of my huge, lovable Labrador with the iPad 2 straight out of the Twitter app. This one was only just over 10 seconds and both it and the tweet it was attached to uploaded almost instantly.
I’m really not sure this is a feature I will make use of more than once in a blue moon, but it’s nice to know it’s there. Oh, and if you want to check out my handsome big Lab, here’s that quick clip: http://t.co/fopyKyO
The official Twitter app for the iPad and iPhone has had an update today, to Version 3.3.
Here’ what’s new in this update:
- Quick Bar, shows trends and other important things without leaving your timeline! Swipe the Quick Bar left/right to cycle through trends
- Trends based on your location
- Cleaner, redesigned Tweet compose screen.
- Automatically shortens URLs. Just paste them in and they will only count as 20 characters, no matter how long they are!
- Autocomplete @usernames and hashtags
- Easier photo uploading
- Find friends using your phone’s contacts
- Improved DM conversation view, now works similar to SMS/Chat
- Cleaned up preferences
- Bug fixes
I haven’t spent long enough with the updated app to have any big thoughts on it yet. If you have, please share them in the comments.
Here’s an App Store link for Twitter, it’s a free app.
Osfoora HD – a popular iPad Twitter app with a gorgeous UI – has been updated this week, to Version 1.2. The big addition is that it’s now iOS 4.2 compatible. Here’s the short list of changes in this update:
iOS 4.2 Compatability
- Updated image services and OAuth Echo Support
- Improved Scrolling
Osfoora HD is my joint-favorite Twitter app for the iPad (and iOS as a whole) along with Twitter. I’m glad to see it getting up to speed with 4.2 and also looking forward to seeing its upcoming Mac version.
You can find the latest version of Osfoora HD in the App Store now, priced at $3.99.
