Twitter Gives its Mobile Web Apps a Major Facelift

It copies the way its native apps work.

Padmini Harchandrai|May 12, 2011, 10:11:48 IST

Twitter has hugely improved its mobile web experience by releasing an update that allows Twitter from a mobile browser to look a lot like its native apps. This web mobile experience will be available for all high end touchscreen phones, whether an official Twitter application is available for it, or not. It was built from ground up for smartphones and tablets and includes support for HTML5.

The new Twitter mobile web experience

It has functions like pull and release to refresh, tab switching and gesture control, which all works pretty well. It's a huge improvement from their previous mobile web experience.

Twitter is rolling out the new mobile web experience to a few iPhone, iPad and Android users today and to more users next week. It can be accessed by going to twitter.com on your mobile's browser. If you're not one of the few they've rolled out to, you can still access the old mobile web Twitter from your mobile browser.

By Padmini Harchandrai

Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.