Twitter announced updates to its Android, iPhone, iPad,
and Mac apps today, as well as its desktop and mobile websites, plus TweetDeck.
The main improvement isn’t a huge change, but it does eliminate one of the most
annoying aspects of the apps — namely, the fact that they couldn’t tell if you
had read a Direct Message on a different device or app.
In other words, if you read a
direct message on Twitter for Mac (for example), then opened up Twitter for
iPhone, the DM would still show up as unread. I don’t think it ruined the
Twitter experience for anyone, but even for someone like me, who doesn’t get
too many DMs and gave up on the “inbox zero” instinct years ago, seeing those
read-yet-unread messages could be pretty exasperating.
Thanks to today’s updates
Twitter says that issue is going away — though you’ll need to make sure you
have the latest version of whatever apps you’re using in order for the changes
to take effect. I tried it out myself, and seeing Twitter accurately reflect my
reading behavior made me pretty happy.
In addition, Twitter says its
mobile apps have an improved search experience, with full bios when you search
for people, and a “similar accounts” preview. And the iPhone version includes a
new “tweet composer” (shown above) that allows you to reply to a tweet without
jumping to a new window (so you can see the context for your reply as you type
it). It’s also supposed to include a new “people” button in the navigation bar,
though I’m not actually seeing that one yet.
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