Twitter want user to be able to access Twitter no matter where we are; regardless of what device we use; or, whether we prefer to access Twitter through a mobile application or the browser. Today, Twitter are starting to roll out a new version of twitter.com for mobile devices. This web app allows them to provide a high-quality and consistent Twitter experience on high-end touchscreen devices – whether or not an official Twitter application is available. It was built from the ground up for smartphones and tablets, which have more advanced browsers that support the latest web technologies, including HTML5.
The app is fast – we can quickly scroll through our timeline, move between tabs and compose Tweets. It’s rich – it takes advantage of capabilities that high-end device browsers offer, such as touch gestures and a large screen. And it’s simple – it’s easy-to-use and has the features we’d expect from a Twitter application, including our timeline, @mentions, messages that we can read in conversation view, search, trending topics, lists, and more.
Twitter are releasing this application today to a small percentage of users on iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android smartphones, and we’ll be rolling it out to additional folks with those devices in the coming weeks. You can use Twitter on your phone’s browser by going to twitter.com. If you don’t yet have access to the new web app, we’ll still be able to use the existing version of twitter.com for mobile browsers.
Source: Twitter blog
