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Twitter for Android becomes faster and more polished
Twitter has just announced an update to its official app for Android. The main focus of this update is making the app faster, more polished, and easier to use. Several new features have been added to reach these goals.Let's take them one by one. A new 'tweet details page' is available by simply tapping on a tweet. This page makes it easier to click on links or reply, retweet, favorite or share a tweet. 'Swipe to reveal' also gives you a quick way of performing actions on a tweet -- by swiping across a tweet you get quick access to replying, sharing the tweet or viewing the user's profile (as seen in the image to the right).
'Pull to refresh' does exactly what its name implies -- when you're at the top of any timeline, pulling down initiates a refresh. 'Quote a tweet' is another self-explanatory new feature, which allows you to do 'old-style retweets', albeit with a little work since you'll have to manually add "RT" and get rid of a pair of quotation marks. When you hit 'retweet' a new options menu pops up, and there you can choose either the new-style retweet or to 'quote a tweet'.
The app is now also faster than ever, featuring speed improvements for loading and scrolling timelines. Higher resolution avatar photos are also supported. The new Twitter app for Android works on Android 2.1 and newer and is available now in the Android Market.
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Subscribe to commentsannoyingposter4Nov 3rd 2010 6:50PM
too bad twitter is useless
JoshNov 3rd 2010 7:03PM
how is it my rss feeds for downloadsquad cause me to check for updates and bam. i have one or two updates. geesh. thanks downloadsquad. Android FTW
SkeezyNov 3rd 2010 7:32PM
Between this and the updated Facebook for Android, I've pretty much ditched TweetDeck. Twitter just needs to add the ability to view images in-app as opposed to opening the browser.