Twitter for iPhone is one of the most downloaded and installed applications in the App Store. So when a new version comes out, it’s kind of a big deal. Well, thanks to a bug in the App Store in iOS 6, 9to5Mac was able to spot an incoming update to the official Twitter application.
The update appeared below “Version History” in the iOS 6 App Store, and showed the whole change log for the app. Version 4.3 has a long list of new features, like the new icon and major enhancements to push notifications.
Here’s the full change log, courtesy of 9to5Mac:
- 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 is a slew of other tweaks, more polish, and bug fixes
The app’s release notes were posted to the store on July 6, meaning that the release will likely be in the near future.
