Twitter app for iPhone and Android updated

By George Wong on 02/21/2012 17:01 PDT

Twitter has just announced new versions of its mobile app for both the iPhone and Android devices. The apps bring back some high-demand features that used to be present in the app, as well as some new design and functionality improvements. Both versions of the app now features a swipe shortcut which lets users reply, retweet, favorite or share tweets without having to leave the timeline, and a confirmation alert for “find friends”.

Twitter for iPhone gets copy and paste again, the option to copy links from tweets, an updated design for Direct Messages and font size settings. Twitter for Android has been optimized to run on devices with Ice Cream Sandwich, the Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet. Head over to the Apple App Store or Android Market to download the latest versions of Twitter today.

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Android Android is mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license.

iOS was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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