Twitter for iPhone and Android apps received a much needed update today. The new version 4.1 for iPhone and version 3.1.0 for Android brings back the swipe gesture shortcut on popular demand, adds the ability to copy and paste from within tweets and profiles, along with tons of other enhancements.
With Microsoft desperately trying to make Windows Phone into a real competitor for Apple's iOS and Google's Android, the platform finds itself suffering the same issues that Android was lamented for during its infancy - a severe lack of quality apps.
The sheer number of Twitter applications available for the iPhone often makes choosing just one a very difficult choice for users. The official Twitter app is free of charge, but generally represents a love it or hate it situation amongst users with a large number of regular iOS Twitter users opting to look elsewhere for on-device Twitter usage. If you ask any seasoned iPhone user which Twitter application they prefer, the same handful of names generally pop up and usually includes the likes of Osfoora, Echofon, Twittelator Neue, Tweetbot and Twitterific.
Ever since the confirmation of native Twitter integration in iOS 5, there has been a marked uprising in not only third-party App Store apps, but also jailbreak tweaks related to those using The Twitters.
Looks like the jailbreak devs are really on top of their game just now, and those lengthy waits for teased tweaks to be released seem a distant memory as the gurus behind them fall over each other for the attention of the millions of new jailbreakers.
We have now been living with Siri since October 2011 when the iPhone 4S was made available for public consumption. There is no denying that Siri is a powerful addition to a mobile device, with the intelligent voice assistant being able to analyze voice commands and perform specific tasks based on this audible user instruction. But it seems as if the jury is still out on Siri by a lot of people, with a portion of user citing the lack of scope as reason.
As a social network, Twitter has become a big player in the last year with over 200 million active account holders accounting for over 1.6 billion search queries each day. Unlike networks such as Facebook, Twitter exists to connect users to the combined knowledge of the world by allowing them to follow friends, experts, companies and celebrities.
We all very much live our lives online these days. If you're anything like us, you've got a Twitter account, a Facebook one, another for Google and maybe an Instagram and Flickr account thrown in for good measure.
If you're an avid Twitter user like the most of us here at Redmond Pie, then you're probably aware that yesterday was a big day over at Twitter HQ when they rolled out some major changes to their web interface and mobile apps.
Twitter for iPhone and Android has had a major overhaul today, with both versions of the social networking app seeing plenty of changes both under the hood, and up front.
