With 1 fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed attributes to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even far moretablet-toting people.
Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified shortcomings, and optimize Twitter to run on Android tablets.
Twitter released a version of its application for the Kindle Fire on the Amazon Appstore right now. The company also promised that the Barnes & Noble Nook Shop will get a Twitter app on Thursday.
Each iPhone and Android applications now alert the mobile Twitterer prior to accessing her address book to uncover buddies. Ought to the Twitter user navigate to the “Find Pals” feature in the Uncover portion of the app, she will locate a message that reads, “We will securely upload your contacts to assist you find pals and suggest users to stick to on Twitter.” The user need to then click “OK” prior to proceeding.
The addition of the alert comes just a week following VentureBeat uncovered evidence showing that a slew of iPhone applications, Twitter included, access the user’s mobile address book without first requesting permission.
Twitter’s mobile apps also now consist of a much-loved shortcut feature of yore that allows a individual to swipe a tweet to interact with it. The swiping action brings up a shortcut screen that includes reply, retweet, preferred, share, and user profile-viewing choices. The function should (again) appeal to the power Twitterer.
iPhone application users may possibly appreciate the returned abilities to copy and paste the text of tweets and mark all direct messages as read.
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