Twitter updates mobile site
The part of the social networking site’s site and services that hadn’t been updated since time immemorial has changed and for the better — it does pretty much everything the regular Twitter site does, except lists. And, hey, it looks a lot better, too.
Twitter announced (blog) a preview release of its mobile site. Yes, there’s still old mobile twitter, but now there’s new mobile twitter, which is a big step up over the original as it allows you to easily follow folks—a maneuver that was kind of a pain in the patootie.
‘m’ doesn’t fully feel like Twitter, and could probably do a bit more things for you … ‘M’ should also be fantastically innovative—naturally the best way to do that is use our own APIs. So, the mobile team here built a brand new mobile web client from scratch, using only Twitter APIs, and we’d like to share the results with you—@leland, user experience lead on the @twittermobile team
Thereupon, Leland advises that new mobile twitter works best with WebKit-based mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS. Although other browsers like @BlackBerry work too, he intones, the hasn’t had time to do any tuning just yet.
What do you think of “new” mobile Twitter?
via Mashable
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