Twitter for Windows Phone shows off slick new Metro interface

Twitter users on Windows Phone 7 now have an official app to play with. Twitter for Windows Phone was created by the Twitter team and Identity Mine -- a development house specializing in Microsoft platforms. The app uses a slick-looking new "Metro" interface, powered by Windows Phone 7's Pivot feature, which lets you navigate by swiping left or right to other pages within the app. In the case of the Twitter app, those pages are your timeline, mentions, direct messages, trending tweets and more.

Twitter's announcement focuses on the Windows Phone app's simplicity and ease of use, but it also appears to include advanced Twitter features, including viewing photos and locations. Developers will be interested to know that the app was created using an open source REST API called Tweet Sharp, and that the developers at Identity Mine improved upon the code and contributed it back to the open source project.

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