Twitter Releases Updated iPad App

Tuesday September 18, 2012 11:35 am PDT by Jordan Golson

Twitter has updated its official iPad client app, adding additional support for tweets with images and video embedded, as well as support to view photos, videos and links from the web full-screen within the app.

Tweets come alive in the new Twitter for iPad. Expand Tweets with a single touch to see beautiful photos, rich videos and web page summaries right in your timeline. Dive into the content with another tap to see the photo, play the video or read links from the web in fullscreen mode.

Also, both the iPad and iPhone versions of Twitter have gained a new 'Header' image for user profiles that is similar to Facebook's 'Cover Photo' and will be displayed above tweets on iPad, mobile apps, and Twitter.com.

Twitter for iPad and iPhone is available free on the App Store. [Direct Link]

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Spanky Deluxe

Posted: 9 months ago

Look at all that wasted space! Awful! What were they thinking?!

Maybe they hired the Skype designers. :-P

Rating: 11 Positives

TC03

Posted: 9 months ago

Whoah, they removed the option to load and display URL's while looking at your tweet, this sucks. Now it's nothing more than an enlarged iPhone app.

Thumbs down.

Rating: 9 Positives

Matrixfan

Posted: 9 months ago

So I'm not the only person who thinks that the older style with slides were better...

Rating: 8 Positives

SalsaShark

Posted: 9 months ago

Well, they've destroyed yet another Twitter app. I had already been forced to switch to TweetBot on my phone (and am quite happy with it). This finally made me do the same on my iPad. Aside from a horrendous interface, trying to use multiple accounts is extra clunky.

Rating: 7 Positives

OtherJesus

Posted: 9 months ago

Twitter needs to fire their mobile team. Seriously WTF are they doing? Each updates gets worse.

Rating: 6 Positives

Spanky Deluxe

Posted: 9 months ago

They ruined it! There's so much dead space now. I don't understand what their deal is, do they not test these things out?!

Rating: 5 Positives

SBlue1

Posted: 9 months ago

Man, they ruined it!

Rating: 4 Positives

The Phazer

Posted: 9 months ago

Urgh. What a catastrophe.

Twitter need to get rid of their mobile team. They are flat out terrible. Everything they touch turns to crap.

Rating: 4 Positives

The Phazer

Posted: 9 months ago

Not surprising that everyone thinks it's a huge deal and hating on it. If they would have made Jesus read people's tweets to you people still wouldn't like it.

...Or maybe it's just ****.

Rating: 4 Positives

Spanky Deluxe

Posted: 9 months ago

Had you used the app before? The tweets only took up a fourth of the screen.

Yes I had used it before. The difference is that before, you could click on a tweet and it would open it up in a pane on the right - showing the picture in a tweet, or opening a link in a tweet etc. You could still scroll through your other tweets in the meantime. It was a far more efficient use of space. Now, those side areas are simply never used.

Rating: 4 Positives

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