Twitter App for iPad Puts New Focus on Design

Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times:

With Twitter for iPad, people can tap on a link and see photos, stories or video in a new pane, and easily swipe their finger to move between the content and the Twitter stream.

Another frustrating aspect of Twitter is that it can be difficult to track conversations as people reply and refer to one another, and to find more information about a particular Twitter user without clicking on a bunch of links. The new iPad app addresses that as well. By pinching on a Twitter post on the iPad screen, users can read more about an author and reply to a post. By putting two fingers together and pulling down on a post, people can view the rest of the conversation around the post.