Twitter intends to offer all of its users an improved mobile experience in the near future, and in the meantime, a preview of its next-generation mobile site has become available. mobile.twitter.com looks to be an upgrade in almost every way.
Leland Rechis, user experience lead on the Twitter Mobile team, wrote on the Twitter Blog, “Its got a great new look, and has some great new touches that will make your mobile experience on Twitter a bit more fun and a lot more helpful.” These include improvements with respect to replies, direct messages, and favorited tweets.
What’s more, the new mobile site sort of showcases Twitter’s engineering strengths, as Rechis noted that it was built from the ground up using nothing other than Twitter APIs.
This will wind up being a fairly important step for Twitter if it can lure people away from using random third-party apps. Taking control of how folks access its site seems like a sort of basic feat that most big companies manage to pull off.
The new mobile site isn’t yet perfect, though, so individuals who like stuff to be perfectly polished should proceed with caution. Rechis warned that the new site may not get along with BlackBerrys. Also, it doesn’t offer the new-ish Twitter Lists feature.
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