Small business owners who need to keep up with social media on the go often have two kinds of mobile devices to choose from these days. That’s why the announcement of a new Twitter Android tablet app is so important.
On the official Twitter blog, Michael Ducker, Senior Product Manager explains:
While we’ve long offered a mobile app for Android users, we’ve not yet provided an app that is optimized for Android tablets –– until now.
The new Twitter app for tablets offers a whole new perspective Ducker calls a “landscape.” Tapping with a finger or stylus lets users open up additional levels for viewing extended tweets, photos, videos and article previews.
New Multi-Screen Feature
Among other features on the new app is multi-screen. It creates a split screen that lets you surf the Web, or stream music and video while checking Twitter.
A special widget also lets you see country specific breaking news, music, sports and photos to personalize the Twitter tablet experience, Ducker said.
The widget could also help entrepreneurs keep up with the latest news and information from their country and region.
Twitter Gets Graphic
Finally, the new app allows users to create graphics and actually draw on photos using instruments like the S-Pen stylus included with the new Galaxy Note 10.1.
At first the new app will be available only on the Galaxy Note 10.1, but Twitter says it will be rolling out to other devices soon.
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Thanks for this news tidbit, Joshua!
My wife has an Android Tablet, and I can’t wait to sneak this new Twitter App onto it 🙂
The Franchise King®
Mark Alba
I’m looking forward to playing with the new Twitter app on my HP Slatebook x2. I like the drawing aspect and multi-screen. It should be lots of fun.
Aira Bongco
Me too. It’s about time they get graphic. After all, mobile phones and tablets is now all about pictures and less on words.
I’ll give it a try. Would love to have a better Twitter experience on my Galaxy tablet.