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Twitter Releases Updated iPad App

Tuesday September 18, 2012 12:35 PM 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]

Top Rated Comments

Spanky Deluxe

175 months ago

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

Maybe they hired the Skype designers. :-P

Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)

TC03

175 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.

Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Matrixfan

175 months ago

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

Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)

SalsaShark

175 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.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

OtherJesus

175 months ago

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

Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Spanky Deluxe

175 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?!

Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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