Official Twitter App For Android Now Available

By AIC Staff on May 1st, 2010 1

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At the beginning of April, Twitter announced its intentions to launch an official Twitter app for the Android platform. At the time, Android for Twitter was no easy task, as few Twitter clients have managed to heavily penetrate the Android platform.

There are many mobile apps that provide Twitter services which among themselves, also compete against built-in device tools such as Motorola’s MOTOBLUR, as found on the Backflip and Dext with Telus and Bell, that also provide a basic level of Twitter access.

Reading tweets is easy in a bunch of places on your phone. Quickly access your timeline with the home screen widget, view a tweet location on a map, and see your friend’s latest tweet in your phonebook, GoogleTalk list or any application that uses Android’s QuickContact bar.

So after a slew of not-so-great Twitter apps, Twitter official has launched an application that is now available in the Android Market. The official Twitter app could very well be the best Twitter related app on the Android platform as the app offers a clean UI, has support for widgets, and support for viewing tweets from the QuickContact bar.

Users may also upload images and video right from the Gallery.

Other than the lack of support for multiple Twitter accounts, the one major drawback is that the Twitter app requires Android 2.1. This requirement unfortunately severely limits the number of devices that the app can run on.

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