Good news for Twitter fans. iOS 6′s redesigned App Store has leaked a major forthcoming update to Twitter’s official iPhone application in its update history section.
Twitter, in recent months, has come under a lot of criticism due to potential new changes to its mobile application API and the lack of power-user features in its official mobile device apps. However, it appears that this may change in the coming days, as leaked release notes show some inspiring new changes.
As per the leaked app update notes, according to a 9To5Mac report, Twitter for iPhone will bring along more interactive tweet experiences with content previews, images, and videos from "partner websites". Also, selected events will be promoted and managed by the micro-blogging site.
What’s more, in the Connect tab, autocomplete improvements will be now be present. With major push notifications enhancement, you will now be able to choose to receive push notifications when certain people tweet. The icon will also change to the new Twitter bird.
Here’s a complete list of features that you can expect
- More interactive Tweet view experience: content previews, videos, images and more will now be shown within tweets containing links to "partner websites."
- Tweets about "selected events" will now be highlighted. Twitter will curate the relevant tweets and images
- In the Connect tab, autocomplete improvements will be now be present. Twitter rolled out something similar to their official website last week.
- Major push notifications enhancement: You will now be able to choose to receive push notifications when certain people tweet
- Like in Tweetbot, you will now be able to receive unobtrusive Twitter notifications while you are using the app.
- The Discover tab will now be able to alert users when new content is ready for perusal
- Personalized Trends
- You will now be able to tap a user's avatar to be taken to their profile page
- Improved performance
- You will now be able to manually input your password when having authentication issues
- Hungarian localization
- Finally: the new Twitter logo will be featured on the icon
- Also promised are a slew of other tweaks, more polish, and bug fixes
However, there's no official word on when the update will release.
