Twitter re-launches Mobile Site; Works Great on Symbian

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by Clinton Jeff | on December 4th, 2009 | 2 comments

Twitter unveiled a new mobile.Twitter.com site earlier today, optimized for mobile devices. And it works great on Symbian S60 devices like the N97, and E72.

Since they’re still calling it a ‘preview’ it hasnt replaced the old m.Twitter.com url, so you can still access the old version from there.

From their blog post :

What may be a less known fact is: Lots of people access Twitter on their phones via our good ol’ mobile website, and trusty ‘m’ has been delivering tweets faithfully. However, ‘m’ doesn’t fully feel like Twitter, and could probably do a bit more things for you.
‘M’ should also be fantastically innovative — naturally the best way to do that is use our own APIs. So, the mobile team here built a brand new mobile web client from scratch, using only Twitter APIs, and we’d like to share the results with you.
Our new mobile web site is previewing today, just point your phone’s browser to http://mobile.twitter.com. Its got a great new look, and has some great new touches that will make your mobile experience on Twitter a bit more fun and a lot more helpful. Let us know if you agree and especially tell us how we can make it better.
This preview works best on @Webkit browsers – Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones all come with these browsers installed. Other browsers like @BlackBerry work too, but we haven’t done all the fine tuning yet.

It has all the features of the full Twitter site like Mentions (replies), Favs, Direct Messages and even has the new Twitter ReTweet feature (not to be confused with the ‘normal’ RT feature).

Personally, I still prefer using Dabr.co.uk myself, but hey Mobile.Twitter.com isnt that bad either.

Update: We’ve heard reports that the site isnt working for the Nokia 5800 XM for some strange reason. I’ve tested it on a Nokia N97 Classic, N97 Mini, Nokia E72 and Nokia N82 and it works great on those devices.

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