Twitter app updated with official ICS support

[Guest Victor von Zeppelin]

The official Twitter client just received an big update, adding several new features and enhancements - most significant being hardware acceleration support for Ice Cream Sandwich. For those lucky enough to have access to the new OS, your Twitter experience should be much speedier.

It's fantastic news considering the ridicule the app has received since the iOS-inspired redesign that left it bordering on unusable.

Even if you aren't rocking the latest Android release on your phone there are some enhancements worth having, including a swipe gesture over individual tweets to bring up quick actions. You can find the full list after the break.

• Swipe shortcut

• Improved scrolling and network performance

• Improved support for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich

• Confirmation dialog for Find Friends

• Security improvements

• New languages: Filipino, Simplified Chinese

• Many other bug fixes, improvements, and polish

If one of the mekons at Twitter happen to spot this article (or anyone wants to point it in their direction), we've spotted a little niggle in the UI - If you’re scaling the UI up to XHDPI, don't forget the buttons! Or, maybe change them out for real Android buttons, instead of just moving some iOS ones up to the top of the screen. The picture shows a comparison between a 480p and a 720p device. Makes it look a bit weird, no?

If you see this Twitter…thanks in advance for the credit when you roll out the fix ;)

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Source: Twitter Blog

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