Twitter For iPhone Updates: With interactive Tweet View, Improved Notifications

Posted on Jul 9 2012 - 10:10am by CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pradeep Yadav, a technology lover, analyzer and  love reporting about different technologies.

Twitter has new changes on the way for third party app developers and with the fair chances that company will be further a making the case for its own apps. The company leaked release notes reportedly through the app sore in iOS 6′s redesigned App Store which brings out a lot of more insight that what the micro-blogging giant is really cooking on.

We’re not sure if any of these changes will tempt users away from third-party options like Tweetbot, You can find all of the new features – summarized from Twitter’s release notes – after the break:

  • More interactive Tweet view experience: content previews, videos, images and more will now be shown within tweets containing links to “partner websites.”
  • Tweets about “selected events” will now be highlighted. Twitter will curate the relevant tweets and images
  • In the Connect tab, autocomplete improvements will be now be present. Twitter rolled out something similar to their official website last week.
  • Major push notifications enhancement: You will now be able to choose to receive push notifications when certain people tweet
  • Like in Tweetbot, you will now be able to receive unobtrusive Twitter notifications while you are using the app.
  • The Discover tab will now be able to alert users when new content is ready for perusal
  • Personalized Trends
  • You will now be able to tap a user’s avatar to be taken to their profile page
  • Improved performance
  • You will now be able to manually input your password when having authentication issues
  • Hungarian localization
  • Finally: the new Twitter logo will be featured on the icon (our image below is from iOS 6 Twitter integration)
  • Also promised is a slew of other tweaks, more polish, and bug fixes
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