Leaked Twitter App Update Gets Officially Released

Twitter has released a major update to its iPhone application that brings expanded tweets, push notifications, ambient notifications, and more.

Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what's happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app.

Real-time search reveals breaking news, while trending topics show what's happening now around the world. View trends, browse your interests and see suggested users in several categories, including fashion, entertainment and travel, or search to find out what people are saying about topics you care about, such as politics or big sporting events.


What's New In This Version:
Twitter for iPhone 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

You can download Twitter from the App Store for free.

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