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.
Twitter – the official Twitter app for iPad and iPhone – has been updated, to Version 3.2.1. The biggest addition is push notifications for @mentions and messages. It’s really about time this feature hit the official Twitter app, since several third party apps have been doing this for some time now.
Here are the other noted changes for the iPhone and iPad – the last three are iPad specific:
* Improved display of shortened URLs
* Correctly load reserved Twitter.com paths, such as http://twitter.com/newtwitter
* Fix connection error caused by a device clock being set incorrectly
* Additional retina graphics
* Enable geotagging in your account with one tap
* fix itunes links
* Inline media
* Manage saved searches
* UI improvements
I’m looking forward to seeing the UI improvements on the iPad, especially these bits mentioned at Daring Fireball:
… it’s easier to flip your way back to the “root”, and a selected tweet no longer stays pinned to the top of the list as you scroll down.
You can find the latest version of Twitter in the App Store now, and it remains a free app.
MG Siegler at TechCrunch, talking about the official Twitter app for iPhone and iPad:
But the one thing it has been lacking and that users knock it for is the lack of Push Notifications. Well, good news. They’re coming. Soon.
Ha. We were just discussing this in the comments on my post with first impressions of Twitter for iPad. My feeling was that there are already enough good 3rd party solutions providing notifications for Twitter (e.g Boxcar) – but I know many users prefer to have the feature included in their favorite Twitter app.
So this should be good news for lots of fans of the Twitter app on the iPhone and iPad.
Twitter for iPad was released late last night. This is of course the official app from Twitter themselves and, more importantly, the creation of Loren Brichter – the developer of the excellent Tweetie app, which was bought by Twitter.
Like many folks round the web – and seemingly 90% of the Twitterverse – I stayed up late last night once I heard it was going to be released, and played the patience-testing game of near constant App Store refreshing until I managed to download it.
My tweet in the screenshot above was my very first impression of the app – well worth the staying up late and the wait. Here’s some much better words, courtesy of @brandonsteili, that sum up what I was really thinking:
Seriously, @atebits has a mastery of the iOS SDK that just boggles the mind. Incredible job on the iPad Twitter app.
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