Twitter is a great service and its creators want to keep it that way. Not the ‘great’ part, presumably they want this as well, but the ‘service’ part. It always catered to third-party developers and avoided adding too much features to the basic product. This has changed slightly recently, but Twitter hasn’t lost its aim. Still, it needs to offer a decent product by itself too and, while the site has been getting some much needed attention in the past few months, the mobile version has been mostly neglected. Not any more though, Twitter is testing a brand new mobile site which offers a hugely improved experience compared to the previous iteration.
“It’s probably no secret that Twitter has an active developer community, using our APIs to create fantastically innovative apps. Nor is it a secret that Twitter and mobile phones go together like birds and flight. What may be a less known fact is: Lots of people access Twitter on their phones via our good ol’ mobile website, and trusty ‘m’ has been delivering tweets faithfully,” Leland Rechis, head of Twitter’s User Experience team on the mobile front, wrote.
“So, the mobile team here built a brand new mobile web client from scratch, using only Twitter APIs, and we’d like to share the results with you. Our new mob… (read more)