dulcy benediction: Official Twitter for iPhone app leak reveals major update, interactive features and better notifications

Monday, July 9, 2012

Official Twitter for iPhone app leak reveals major update, interactive features and better notifications

The official Twitter for iPhone app is about to receive new interactive features along with a much better notification system. The information comes by way of a leaked App Store update description spotted by [9to5 Mac].(http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/08/major-twitter-for-iphone-update-incoming-more-interactive-enhanced-notifications/)

Twitter, in recent months, has come under fire due to potential new changes to its mobile application API and the lack of power-user features in its official mobile device apps. It appears that this controversy may change in the coming days, as leaked release notes show some impressive new changes. Twitter for iPhone 4.3 is incoming and it brings several new features focusing on interactivity, enhanced notifications, searching, performance, and more.

It is about time that Twitter for iPhone received a significant update and some of the new features do sound very interesting. Finally we are seeing unique features in Twitter's own app, like the ability to have push notifications for individuals. If you want to know when a close friend of yours has something interesting to say, you will know about it straight away.

The question is, with Twitter's new direction and new features, how much room will be left for all the other Twitter apps in the App Store?

If you don't use the official Twitter for iPhone, would you contemplate switching back to it after this update is released? Other apps still appear to offer a better user interface and a lot more power user features. Is that incentive for Twitter to compete to make the best app, or simply start making those other apps less attractive or available via even more controversial API limitations?

You can see the leaked release notes via the link below.

Source: 9to5Mac

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