New Twitter iPhone Application Now Available in the App Store

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As you may already know, Twitter officially purchased Tweetie a while ago as the company seemed to be determined to offer its customers a better mobile experience on one of the most popular mobile environments, iPhone OS.

Therefore it was only a matter of time until the official Twitter application for iPhone hit the AppStore and it looks like that happened today. Moving past the fact that Apple approved the application right on the first day of Google I/O, let’s call it a coincidence; we’re going to immediately tell developers that happen to build various Twitter clients that the niche their fighting for supremacy in has just gotten tougher.

It will be a little harder to fight against the official Twitter client now both on iPhones and Android handsets so developing a new Twitter application might not be such a good idea right now.

We have talked about the Android official Twitter client a while ago and it’s time now to focus on the iPhone official Twitter application. As you can expect Tweetie 2 has been removed from the App Store and replaced with the new version. The application is, of course, free of charge and it’s probably available in most iTunes markets.

And since “Tweetie is now Twitter!” we expect some new features to go along with that name change, so here’s a complete list of new features:

• Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users.
• Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends…winner combo!
• You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets.
• Sign-up is now available within the application as well, complete with Suggested user list.
• More tab has been reorganized to accomplish all this. Users with one account can add a second account under the Accounts and Settings button here.
• Actions we’ve found people use most, like Retweet have been moved to the main actions bar.
• Minor tweaks were made to tweet rendering so they match Twitter.com tweets.

But everything else stays the same which means you’ll be tweeting in no time as soon as you get this improved but official Twitter application.