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More details in new Twitter for BlackBerry

Today you can download a new version of Twitter for BlackBerry from the App World. This update gives you a richer experience of any Tweet and supports right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew.

Now when you expand a Tweet to see the details view, you can enjoy images from pic.twitter.com in full resolution and RIM maps for geolocated Tweets. It’s also easier to see how a single Tweet fits into a broader conversation from the details view with previous Tweets and replies.Read more…

Introducing Twitter for Nokia

Nokia, the most widely used mobile platform in the world, now offers a fast, native Twitter experience for Series 40 feature phones. Beginning today, millions of people who use Nokia Series 40 devices can download Twitter for Nokia in the Nokia Store.

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Overhauling mobile.twitter.com from the ground up

Twitter is all about making real-time information available to everyone, everywhere. In order to reach every person on the planet we recently released an update to mobile.twitter.com for feature phones and older browsers. We completely overhauled this client from the ground up, a process that resulted in a lighter-weight, faster client that looks and feels like twitter.com and our mobile apps.

Here’s the home timeline on mobile.twitter.com, before and after the redesign:Read more…

Caching with Twemcache

Update - July 11, 2012, 9:45amWe want to correct an error regarding the slab calcification problem we mentioned in the original post. This problem only applied to our v1.4.4 fork of Memcached; this correction is reflected below. The recent Memcached version has addressed some of these problems. Read more…

Expansive experiences in latest mobile apps for iPhone, Android

Today you can download new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates to bring you closer to everything you care about.

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Simpler search

We’re constantly working to make Twitter search the simplest way to discover what’s happening in real time. To that end, today we’re introducing search autocomplete and ‘People you follow’ search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it even easier to immediately get closer to the things you care about.Read more…

Twitter now in Catalan and Ukrainian

Today we’ve made Twitter available in Catalan and Ukrainian, bringing the total number of supported languages to 30.

These new languages are possible thanks in large part to our community of translators. Twitter has been using a translation community model since 2009. The demand has been so high that we built a console - Twitter’s Translation Center, where users can help suggest translations for the site. With each official Twitter language launch, we saw more and more demand from users to help us translate Twitter into their language.Read more…

Cast your MLB All Star Game vote with a Tweet

Next week, the top baseball players will be heading to the 2012 All Star Game in Kansas City. The rosters are all set - except for one slot on each league’s team. With just hours left before the two Final Vote players are selected, fans can now make their favorite player an All Star with a Tweet.

Tweet using the designated hashtag for the player you want to see take the field in Kansas City, and MLB will add the Tweet tally to the rest of online voting:Read more…

Twitter Transparency Report

Wednesday marks Independence Day here in the United States. Beyond the fireworks and barbecue, July 4th serves as an important reminder of the need to hold governments accountable, especially on behalf of those who may not have a chance to do so themselves.

With that in mind, today we’re unveiling our first Twitter Transparency Report. Inspired by the great work done by our peers @Google, the primary goal of this report is to shed more light on:Read more…

Euro 2012 Recap

Congrats to Spain! Since Poland and Greece kicked off #Euro2012 in Warsaw, the world has watched Europe’s best footballers and teams compete for cup and country together on Twitter. Commentators, fans and athletes around the world supported their teams in song, in face paint and in Tweets.Read more…

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