Twitter Unveils Its Brand New Mobile Interface, Finally
December 4, 2009
Twitter just completely remodeled its mobile interface and it seems like they managed to finally give it a decent look. Indeed until now Twitter's mobile version was more than neglected, lacked many functionalities and was to be honest, just plain ugly.
Twitter's success on the iPhone is mainly due to the many great apps that let you use it anyway so this shouldn't have much impact in the end, nevertheless it's good to know it's there, just in case.
Here is what Leland Rechis of the User Experience team wrote about it:
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. However, ‘m’ doesn’t fully feel like Twitter, and could probably do a bit more things for you.
‘M’ should also be fantastically innovative — naturally the best way to do that is use our own APIs. 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.