twitter released a native Windows Store app for Windows 8 on Wednesday. It’s great sunrise(prenominal)s for Twitter enforcers running Windows 8, and probably veritable(a) better news show for Microsoft.
It features Twitter’s Home, Connect, Discover, and Me tabs, and all the well-known(prenominal) features of Twitter, but is withal designed with Windows 8 in mind, which representation it can take great advantage of tools like the share charm that will let you tweet something from any app, and pop off Tiles that will trickle tweets right to the Start Screen. You can also use Windows 8 gestures to do things like swipe photos hold up and forth.
Until now, there hasn’t been an official Twitter application for Microsoft’s next-generation operating system. Most of the available Twitter clients are, frankly terrible. And the beaver Windows Store app previously available, Tweetro, had run out of user tokens (meaning Twitter capped its ability to take on any new users). This meant that Twitter users had to either suffer bad app implementations or use Twitter’s web client.
And while that was bad for users, it was an overplus for Microsoft — and the absence of an official Twitter app was often used as evidence of its flagging fortunes. Which means this new app is great news for both.
Materials taken from WIRED
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