The official Twitter iPad app has finally arrived and it’s not just a blown-up version of the Twitter iPhone app. Twitter promised the iPad app a few months back but it looks like it was worth the wait. Read on for a rundown of all the features…
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The new iPad ad, entitled iPad is Delicious, gives a big role to one of our new favourite iPad apps, Flipboard, as well as throwing Twitter some love. But after Flipboard floundered at launch under a wave of new sign-ups, will it be able to cope with the seal of approval from Apple? Head through to see the latest perky promotional spot for the iPad and the other apps that have caught Apple’s eye…
Flipboard, the iPad app at the centre of a surge of Twitter love yesterday, is instituting invites after the sheer level of demand left its servers struggling to cope. If you nabbed the next-gen magazine app yesterday but haven’t been able to add your Facebook and Twitter feeds, you’ll have to wait. Flipboard has submitted an app update to Apple to add the new invite system but it could be another week before it’s approved. Will Flipboard frenzy fizzle out during the wait?
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We finally had some good news from Apple – and then some – as it shrugged off recent iPhone 4-related calamities by releasing figures that showed the iPad doing ridiculously well. The tablet has almost outsold Apple’s whole range of Macs. With $3.25 billion quarterly profits, we doubt Steve Jobs is losing any sleep.
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Flipboard is the iPad app du jour after tech guru and compulsive tweeter Robert Scoble sang its praises this morning. While we’ve seen some snazzy translations of magazines to the iPad, like the Wired iPad app, Flipboard creates a custom publication built from links, updates and photos shared via Twitter and Facebook. It even makes Twitter lists more useful by grabbing them to form sections. Click through for a look at the app in action and more details on its fiendish features…