Twitter has revamped both its iOS and Android apps, with a raft of new features including a ‘Swipe shortcut’ and a ‘Find Friends’ tool. The new features that are common to both the mobile platforms are the on the home timeline. Users can swipe a tweet to either reply to it, retweet it, favourite it, […]
Twitter has revamped both its iOS and Android apps, with a raft of new features including a ‘Swipe shortcut’ and a ‘Find Friends’ tool. The new features that are common to both the mobile platforms are the on the home timeline. Users can swipe a tweet to either reply to it, retweet it, favourite it, share it or view the tweeter’s profile via their post without leaving your timeline.
The Find Friends feature is basically a confirmation alert when you choose to find friends using your phone’s contacts.
If a user chooses to find Twitter friends via your contacts, you will now get an alert that states that you’re uploading your contacts’ telephone numbers and e-mail addresses to Twitter.
Their details will only be uploaded, if they’ve chosen to be find-able via their contact information.
Apple features
For iOS, Twitter’s returned the copy and paste function, and increased the share function where you used to only be able to copy or email a link to the tweet.
Now if a user sees a link in a tweet, they can tweet it, copy it, e-mail it or choose to read it later via the ‘Read Later’ service (which you will find under Settings > Advanced).
Finally, iOS users can change the font size of their Twitter application under Settings > Advanced.
Android features
For Android users, Twitter’s added support for new devices, including the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Barnes and Noble Nook Color and the Nook Tablet, which will release on the 23rd of February.
The app is also updated to support other Android devices running Ice Cream Sandwich. To download or update Twitter for your iOS or Android device, go to the iOS App Store or the Android Market.
Read the official Twitter blog here
