It’s been a fairly busy month for the Twitter app for iPhone. First, they revamped the interface and introduced a new Quick Bar feature that was supposed to be handy but it just blocked the already-limited view on the iPhone. Less than a week later, they updated it again because, well, the way it blocked the view simply sucked. So they moved the quick bar to the top of the timeline. Now? The official Twitter app for iPhone just got updated again. It doesn’t seem as much an update as it is a rollback though: the biggest change on this version is the absence of the Quick Bar. Or the “Dick Bar,” as some users have come to name it. The nickname was supposedly coined after Twitter chief Dick Costolo’s name, but something tells us it was meant to mean something else.
Remember last week, when the “new-and-improved” Twitter app (version 3.3) was released? Well, forget that. Say hello to 3.3.1, which is essentially the same build, but with a slight difference: they moved the Quick Bar feature – the same feature that the Twitter team thought so highly about last week – to the top of the timeline where it doesn’t take up much screen space or obstruct your view of important stuff, like, you know, tweets.
The updated version of the official Twitter app has just been released on the App store. Available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, version 3.3 features a number of improvements all around, including a cleaned-up design, location-based trends and a new Quick Bar that lets you cycle through trends without leaving the timeline. Word of warning though, while some people like the “cleaner” layout, a lot found the quick bar a bit obtrusive. Do you need to know more? It’s free, and if you regularly tweet, you probably already updated. If you’ve been ignoring your app update notifications, the link and full change log for version 3.3 is available after the break.
We’re not sure exactly how big Twitter’s going to be on an HDTV, since its already on everywhere else from phones to laptops, but that’s the new thing over at Panasonic. Aside from featuring support for other common net-connected HDTV services such as Skype, YouTube, News and weather service updates, and Netflix and Pandora support, you can now view and post Tweets using a Viera CAST HDTV in your living room. In case you somehow lost your phone, can’t access Twitter using a computer, or don’t mind seeing your buddy’s “taking a dump” status message flash on your fancy big screen.
After months of beta-level development that gave BB users the ability to get their Tweet on, the Twitter app for BlackBerry is now officially out. While the beta app gave the BlackBerry-tweeting public features like auto-complete, quotes, and photo viewing through Yfrog and Tweetphoto, the official release adds a number of new features to help complete the mobile microblogging experience.
