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Alihassan Mahdi
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Talon for twitter was released a few weeks ago and already secured its spot as the best Twitter client on the Google Play Store. It’s a great new app and within a short span of time, developer Klinker Apps has just released version 1.3 which includes a huge list of new features.
For those of you who haven’t heard of Talon app before, it’s a Twitter client that has been designed with Android KitKat in mind. It includes a beautiful card-style user interface, neat animations, Google+-like profile pictures and more. In short, the app allows you to do everything you ever wanted to do right from a Twitter app.
Check out the huge list of new features right after the break.
- TweetMarker support
- TwitLonger support
- Upload with TwitPic
- Much better handling of user searches
- Added share and quote button to the in-line expansions on tweets
- Add color to the retweet and favorite buttons so you can better distinguish your actions on a tweet
- Live streamed tweets will be automatically loaded when you are at the top of the timeline
- Higher quality Instagram, TwitPic, and Imgur pictures
- Remove retweets by long pressing the retweet button
- Pull to refresh on searched trends
- Don’t show YouTube in pictures timeline
- Better feedback for when you retweet or favorite a status
- Much better support for auto-trimming the databases
- Added size 30 font
- Mark direct messages and mentions as read when the notification is dismissed
- Better handling of retweets when viewing the tweet
- Reply to your own tweets
- Share individual links in a tweet using the “Share Link” button in the overflow menu when viewing a tweet
- View your current account on the talon pull notification if you have more than one
- Workaround under advanced settings for if your timeline jumped down a spot after a refresh
- Better stability
- Tons of bug fixes
- Updated translations
- Probably some other small stuff I forgot about as well
A very interesting feature that has been added to the latest version is the support for TwitPic, TwitLonger and TweetMarker services. If you’re a Twitter user, it’s worth to trying Talon for Twitter for just $1.99.
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