Official Twitter for Android app Released
A couple of weeks back, Twitter made a surprising move by purchasing a very popular iPhone Twitter client. On the same day they also released an official Blackberry app.
Today they announced the official Android app. Based on the screenshots and blog post, it has all of the basic features you’d be looking for in a Twitter client. Twitter worked directly with the Android team to develop this app and it includes some pretty neat features, like the QuickContact bar. Here’s the downside: The app is only available for Android 2.1 and up. I wonder if Twitter knows that they are missing out on 73% of Android devices.
When apps work well with each other, sharing becomes as second nature on machines as it does in person. The Android platform is really good at that, and we’ve worked with the Android team to make it super easy to share what’s happening. Today we are excited to announce that Twitter for Android is available in Android Market!
While this is the official app, there is still plenty of room for third-party developers. Especially if they support Android 1.5+.
Source: Twitter Blog
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I am sure Twitter knows they are missing a bunch of users by this being 2.1 only. But… this app is sweet, it integrates with your phone as an account and can link up with contacts, giving status updates and twitter options from the quick contact menu. Unfortunately devices below 2.1 do not have that capability (maybe 2.0 does…). Anyway, I am glad they went with this tight of integration with Android, very slick.
This is making me more anxious for my update next week.
The thing with this is that I see no benefit for this app over touiteur. I will continue using this and reply on this post after a little while.
It works brilliantly on my rooted G1. It's a super polished and nice app. I really like it. The lack of support for older versions does suck, but I can kinda understand it.
I paid a dollar for tweetcaster so I'm gonna stick with that. I think by making an official client they are taking away from the android developers who make twitter apps.
I'm running Android 2.0.1 and was able to go to it directly in the store and download it. Runs fine with no problems and have contact syncing as well. Really nice!
I'm running Android 2.0.1 and was able to go to it directly in the store and download it. Runs fine with no problems and have contact syncing as well. Really nice!
I'm running Android 2.0.1 and was able to go to it directly in the store and download it. Runs fine with no problems and have contact syncing as well. Really nice!