Twitter’s new mobile site has, finally, arrived. The service is launched today, although Twitter is keen to stress that, at the moment, the site is just a “preview” of what’s to come.
The new site was built from scratch by Twitter’s internal mobile team and should work on all WebKit browsers, which are present on any half decent smartphone. You shouldn’t encounter too many problems on the iPhone, Android phones, Nokia S60s or Palm Web OS phones for instance. Although the BlackBerry browser isn’t fully supported yet, Twitters says that it will work but they are yet to do the “fine tuning”.
First impressions are that it looks much slicker than the old site. When you log in, there are four tabs showing Twitter stream, mentions, favourites, and direct messages. Hourly and daily trends are accessible and re-tweets are present too, which has to be a good thing.
It’s not really dynamic or ground-breaking enough to temp mobile Twitterers away from platforms such as Echofon or Tweetie, we don’t think, but it’s definitely an improvement of what was previously available.
Out Now | £free | Twitter (via Twitter blog)
