Twitter Updates iOS App With Push and Ambient Notifications, a New Logo and More

Tuesday July 10, 2012 11:48 AM PDT by Jordan Golson
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Twitter has updated its iOS app with push notifications for tweets and ambient notifications for when using the app, along with a new logo and a number of other additions.
What's New in Twitter Version 4.3

- Expanded Tweets: when you view Tweet details containing links to partner websites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more [please note: this feature is rolling out gradually]
- Enhanced experience around selected events with the best Tweets and photos from those involved
- Push notifications for Tweets: choose to receive notifications from people you follow anytime they tweet or retweet
- Ambient notifications: enables you to see brief non-interruptive notifications in the status bar while you are using the app
- Improvements to search autocomplete for users
- Discover: now indicates when new stories are available for you to view
- Tappable avatars that take you directly to user profiles
- Performance improvements
- Support for password entry in app when experiencing authentication issues
- Hungarian language support
- Updated with new Twitter bird
- Many other tweaks, polish, and bug and crasher fixes
Twitter is available free for the iPhone and iPad on the App Store. [Direct Link]

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sjc83
93 months ago
Great app, why all the hate?
Rating: 6 Votes
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The Phazer
93 months ago

Great app, why all the hate?


Because it's utterly wretched compared to 3.x?

Wasted screen estate, poor layout, terrible transitions (no swipe transition when you swipe? FFS), removal of useful shortcuts, removal of translation, considerably worse multiple account support, burying direct messages in favour of the entirely pointless discover tab, inability to copy and paste specific words from tweets...

Literally every single change has been for the worse, and they still haven't fixed any of the things that people actually wanted fixing like missing functionality.

Phazer
Rating: 3 Votes
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jimbean9
93 months ago

I thought Tweetie (iOS version) stopped working.


Never installed any update & it works fine for me
Rating: 2 Votes
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SBlue1
93 months ago
It works for me.
Rating: 2 Votes
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Brdforallseason
93 months ago
I've always loved the Twitter for iPhone app and used it exclusively.

Unfortunately this update does away with two of my favorite nitpicky features: 1) it no longer lists the client from which each tweet is sent 2) it no longer provides a map with location data, only the city name.

Losing these features constitutes a deal breaker for me; I have purchased Tweetbot.
Rating: 2 Votes
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Le Big Mac
93 months ago
I've kept version 3.x (or whatever it was before the disastrous update a few months ago). Not sure I want to go through the reinstall process if I don't like this update.
Rating: 2 Votes
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utahman130
93 months ago
Ever since they updated it three times ago, I stopped using and moved to Tweetbot. Much more efficient!
Rating: 1 Votes
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retrospek
93 months ago
I'm confused - just installed both on my iPad and iPhone and can't see anything different..
Rating: 1 Votes
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BAR115
93 months ago
The picture aspect ratio for the new twitter app

Did anyone notice that the aspect ratio seems longer?
The picture where they show off what he app looks like looks similar to the new aspect ratio of the iPhone 5...
Rating: 1 Votes
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OtherJesus
93 months ago
I've got to hand it to Twitter. They continue to make they app slower and clunkier with each update. 3 updates ago was the biggest flop and now I'm really pissed at myself for installing this piece of crap. And there was no need for the new logo. I only continue to use it because it's free.
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