![]() ![]() The basics of Twitter are here, but not a whole lot more. Remember Microsoft Word? We typically used, what, maybe 10% of its features? So then, why overload us with unnecessary bloat? So goes the thinking in this post-PC world – witness the stripped down, but highly useful Google Drive apps. It emphasizes aesthetics over functionality. The refreshed Carbon (v2) Twitter app for Android falls into the latter camp. I’ve found that Twitter apps typically fall into one of two camps: (1) Those with deep functionality targeted at power users and (2) Those with pretty interfaces aimed at casual users. Choice picks for Android include Plume, TweetCaster, UberSocial (similar to the classic TweetDeck mobile app), Seesmic, and, of course, the official Twitter app itself (hugely improved over the past 18 months). Stable, feature-rich clients now populate the Apple App Store and Google Play. But the wild west days of Twitter apps has slowed. In a bid to monetize their platform, Twitter at once alienated its users while pleasing investors. Then, Twitter reined in its API (the interface that allows third party apps to connect to its services). A few years ago it seemed like Android and iOS users were being swamped with them.
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