Twitter announced official support for Google Glass this morning. The social network will allow users to take and share photos directly through Glass with the text “Just shared a photo #throughglass” included. You can also keep up notifications for mentions, DMs, and Tweets from users you have given that power to. Last, you can reply, favorite, and retweet. 

In order to access Twitter on your Google Glass, head over to http://google.com/myglass and turn on Twitter.

Via:  Twitter

Cheers E!

Twitter Announces Official Google Glass Support – Share Photos, Tweet, and More From Glass is a post from: Droid Life

Today, Falcon Pro got a nice update to version 1.9. Inside, you will find a brand new font (although it’s still Roboto-based), position holding for lists, and the awesome option to set the action bar on the bottom of the display. Along with the new features, there were some bugs that needed squashing, including the one where the DashClock extension wasn’t refreshing. Consider it now squashed.

Falcon Pro has become a dominant 3rd party Twitter app and you still haven’t picked it up, you should do so soon.

What’s New:

• Sexy font (still Roboto based)
• Position holding in Lists
• Load up to 1000 tweets / refresh
• Option to set the action bar on the bottom. Good for large screens.
• Load older tweets
• Inline Droplr previews
• Option to set a different refresh rate for mentions/interactions
• Options to control cache

Let us know if you are using Falcon Pro or still can’t give up the stock Twitter app.

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Falcon Pro Updated With New Font, Action Bar Placement Settings and More is a post from: Droid Life

Hold onto your caps, folks – the Twitter app for Android now has a menu button! Well actually, we should be a bit more specific given this is our business. It’s called an Action Overflow Button. I know, I know, where has this been since the beginning? Either way, it’s there now for easy account switching and quick access to account settings. Go utilize it till your finger falls off. 

What’s New:

• See what’s happening near you or around the world by viewing Trends in hundreds of locations.
• Get quick access to account switching and settings via the menu button.
• Enjoy a smoother experience thanks to bug fixes and other improvements.

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Twitter for Android Updated, Brings a Menu Button! is a post from: Droid Life

Ready to start tweeting from Google Glass? Yesterday, a tweet was spotted that has since been deleted, coupled with the label “Twitter for Glass.” Once news got out, the account was deleted, making it quite possible that no one was supposed to see it.

Adding to the fun, the Twitter account @Mogrooth (minus the Muddler), belongs to a mobile engineering manager at Twitter, Shiv Ramamurthi. Additionally, 3rd party app developers cannot use the word Twitter in the labels, so the fact that “Twitter” is used in Twitter for Glass lends more credibility to the story. 

Does the idea of an official Twitter application for Google Glass get you excited?

Via: TechCrunch | AllThingsD

Official Twitter App Spotted for Google Glass? is a post from: Droid Life

If you find yourself to be a Falcon fanboy, then go pick up the newest Pro update available in Google Play. The update brings a brand new fully offline mode, allowing for pics, video thumbnails, and article images to be viewed with no data connection. Now that’s fancy. 

To top it off, there are some bug fixes, new translations, as well as Play link opening options.

What’s New:

• Full Offline mode – Option to predownload images for offline access (pics, video thumbnails and article images) – With automatic cache cleaning.
• Open Play Store links from internal browser to google play app.
• Translations (Portuguese, Thai, Dutch, Catalan, Arabic, Chinese, Turkish, Hungarian)
• Many fixes

Play Link ($1.96)

Falcon Pro Updated, Brings Full Offline Mode and More Fixes is a post from: Droid Life

Twitter made their new music service official this morning with an announcement and then release on…iOS. As you can tell, and should be no surprise if you look at Vine, Twitter still doesn’t realize that Android is just as, if not more important than iOS in the mobile game these days. Then again, with iOS you don’t have as many devices to develop for and should be easier to launch with, but I digress. 

So what is Twitter’s #music app? According to Twitter the new service (app) “uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.” It also “brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center,” so that you can get directly into artist profiles, find their songs for listening, see their top song, and then Tweet about it all. If you want to find music that your friends are enjoying at the moment or may interest you, you can cruise to #NowPlaying to see a list.

As I mentioned earlier, the service is available as an app for iOS, but a web client is also available now at music.twitter.com. It will eventually launch on Android, but Twitter did not provide a date.

Via:  Twitter

Twitter Launches Music Service, Continues to Forget That Android Exists is a post from: Droid Life

Everyone’s favorite 3rd party Twitter app, Falcon Pro is receiving a bump up to version 1.8 today, bringing a healthy list of new features and improvements. Most of the bigger additions are for starred Twitter profiles, allowing users to receive notifications every time they create a tweet.

In addition, translations are now available in various languages, image loading speeds have been improved and a ton more. For the full changelog, check below. 

What’s New:

• Starred Users – Inline Articles preview with offline access (enabled for all Starred Users that you follow)
• Starred Users – Individual notifications (disabled by default)
• Starred Users – Offline access
• Translations (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish & Norwegian. More to come)
• Open twitter status links in Falcon
• Back button now usable in internal browser to navigate
• Feedback and bug report form in the app settings
• Image loading speeds, now with progress bar
• Fix – user autocompletion
• Fix – htc keyboard auto correct
• Bugfixes

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Falcon Pro Receives Update, New Starred Features and Plenty of Improvements is a post from: Droid Life

Your social network isn’t worth any salt these days unless you can share what music you are listening to with all your friends. Rumor has it that Twitter is looking to right this wrong by releasing a new music application that will work side-by-side with your timeline. There have been plenty of rumors surrounding this app, but don’t worry, Ryan Seacrest can verify its existence for us. 

All Things D is reporting that we should be seeing this new application as soon as this weekend. According to their sources, the service “suggests artists and tracks to users based on a number of personalized signals.” Users will even be able to listen to music inside the app through third party services and watch videos from Vevo.

Coachella, the huge music festival in California, kicks is this weekend, so it would make sense for them to be on the edge of the music news with their new app. Earlier this week, Twitter announced that they have acquired the music recommendation service We Are Hunted which seems to add to this weekend’s timing.

We don’t know much about this new application, but Ryan Seacrest sure does. Seacrest’s twitter says that the app is all about finding trending artists and being able to play their music from within the app. Expect to find music videos and other features when it launches sometime soon.

Update:  Twitter Music is live at music.twitter.com, but it’s showing as “invitation only.”

Via: AllThingsD | Mashable

Report: Twitter’s New Music App Will Launch This Weekend, Ryan Seacrest Says So (Updated) is a post from: Droid Life

The official Twitter app for Android received a UI makeover today and now “reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.” You can swipe between tabs to quickly navigate, view suggestions as you type user names or search terms, and see links to services whenever a Tweet is shared from another mobile app. 

Here is the Play store changelog:

• We’ve got a brand new look and feel crafted for Android 4.0+. Navigate seamlessly between your favorite parts of Twitter with a simple swipe.
• It’s easier to connect with friends and join conversations with @username and #hashtag suggestions that appear as you search or compose a Tweet
• Discover, install and launch your favorite apps from Tweets
• Other bug fixes and improvements

About time, right? Thanks for introducing 2011-12 features, Twitter!

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Via:  Twitter

Twitter Releases Version 4.0 on Android – New UI, Easier Connections With Friends, and More is a post from: Droid Life

Ahhh yes, today is April Fools’ Day. For the most part, it’s the most obnoxious day of the year for anyone in the media. What’s fake? What’s real? Do we even bother reporting anything at all? No one wants to get duped publicly, so we all submit ourselves to doing what I’m doing here, posting up all the pranks from Google and the rest of the tech community. As always, Google goes overboard, but usually in a good way. This year though, we’re seeing some new players like Twitter, Swiftkey, and even Samsung.

Below, you’ll find a list of many. 

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Google Treasure Maps

Be sure to cruise around the actual map to see what kinds of hidden treasures you can find.

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Google Nose

What does “success” smell like? Google Nose.

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Google Apps Levity Algorithm

Making work fun again. Peanut butter and jelly meeting!

Google Wallet ATM

Because who doesn’t want an attachment that can magically produce cash at any moment?

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Gmail Blue

Maybe I just didn’t get this one. Microsoft dig?

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YouTube Shutdown

Yes, YouTube faked a shutdown.

Samsung Eco Tree

Android’s leading smartphone manufacturer announced a new eco-friendly product that still takes advantage of Group Play, Air Fresh, and other Samsung features.

Twttr

Twitter announced a two-tier service. The free model removes vowels from your Tweets. If you want full Tweets, you have to pay $5 a month. Use it here.

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Swiftkey Tilt

Your body is the new typing tool. Wiggling while on a unicycle works the best.

What others are you finding out there?

Cheers to everyone who sent these in!

It’s April Fools’ Day, so Naturally Google is Going Off – Swiftkey, Twitter, and Others Too is a post from: Droid Life

Today, it was announced that Twitter-owned TweetDeck will be re-focusing and doubling their efforts on web applications and their highly popular Chrome app. In doing so, the Android and iOS versions of this client are being discontinued and completely removed from their respective stores starting in May. This ties in with the retirement of Twitter’s v1.0 API which TweetDeck has spoken of before.

Below are two snippets from TweetDeck’s full blog post on the upcoming shutdown. 

To continue to offer a great product that addresses your unique needs, we’re going to focus our development efforts on our modern, web-based versions of TweetDeck. To that end, we are discontinuing support for our older apps: TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone. They will be removed from their respective app stores in early May and will stop functioning shortly thereafter. We’ll also discontinue support for our Facebook integration.

Additionally, TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone rely on v1.0 of Twitter’s API, which we are retiring starting this month. Leading up to that retirement, Twitter’s platform team will be performing occasional tests that will affect applications that rely on API v1.0. Over the next two months users of TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone may experience some outages with those apps before they are removed from their respective app stores in early May.

Will anyone be sad to see it go?

Via: Tweetdeck

Cheers Northside!

Twitter to Shut Down TweetDeck Apps, Will be Removed From Google Play in May is a post from: Droid Life

One of the best and most loved Twitter applications, Falcon Pro, has recently hit the 100,000 user mark that Twitter is enforcing on third-party applications. The developer has pleaded with Twitter to lift the limit and got a  response of “no.” He has been trying to work around the problem within the past week. With the update rolling out today, a band-aid has been applied to the problem, but not a fix. 

Taking to his Google+ page, Falcon Pro’s developer, Joaquim Verges explained how the update will work for everyone. For users who purchased the app already the process is easy:

After updating, you will be prompted to re-login. This process is quick and should only take you a minute. All your settings, mutes, starred users, etc. will be saved. During the login, the app will check for your Google Play licence.

This also will help solve the problem that Falcon has run into with people pirating the app. Users who sideloaded the app should see their feed stop working within the next 24-48 hours. People who haven’t gotten in on this great Twitter app yet will have to shell out a bit more, the price has been raised to $1.95. This is to try and keep new numbers down so that the 100,000 limit isn’t reached as quickly again.

You may want to hurry and refresh your token as soon as the update is live with Twitter’s limit looming. We’ll try to update this post as soon as that happens.

Update:  The update is live. Go get it and re-login!

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Via: +Joaquim Verges

Falcon Pro Update Resets Twitter ID Tokens, Hopes to Free Up A Few More Spots is a post from: Droid Life

Back in August, Twitter decided that third party clients that replicate its core features (home timeline, direct messages, etc.) were not necessarily great for business going forward. As a business that has a mega-value yet can’t seem to figure out that whole profitability thing, they decided that maybe apps that were being used in place of their official were part of the problem. As such, they set a 100,000 limit for the number of tokens (sort of like an individual user) that can be allotted to 3rd party apps. Unfortunately for upstarts like our beloved Falcon Pro, that limit can be reached quite easily. In fact, last night, Falcon Pro hit their 100K token limit and can no longer add new users. 

You can imagine how this could put quite the damper on development for an app that is just getting started. Users who buy the app are left without the ability to actually sign-in, which in turn leads to poor reviews, complaints about the dev, a need for refunds, and so fourth. For now, the developer has added a note to the app listing, so that people aren’t buying it going forward. Obviously, this doesn’t work long term, especially for someone trying to make a living off of their app.

So until they can figure out a way to convince Twitter that their app offers something unique and does not simply copy the core values of Twitter, they can’t get this 100K limit lifted and are stuck in a very difficult place.

Oh, did we mention that of the 100K, that 40K are active installs, which means a whole bunch were taken by people who either pirated the app or installed, took a token and then never opened it again? If you aren’t using the app, you’ll find instructions down below to revoke access, something you should seriously consider if Falcon isn’t your Twitter app of choice.

Falcon Pro is not the first to have this happen. Tweet Lanes, another popular Android Twitter client decided to cut development once they realized that they could not move passed the 100K limit. Popular Windows 8 app Tweetro hit the limit and was unable to have it lifted, even though Twitter doesn’t even offer a Twitter client on Windows 8.

So what can you do? Well, a couple of things.

1. If you aren’t using Falcon Pro, GIVE UP YOUR TOKEN. From a PC browser, head to Twitter.com and select Settings>Apps, find Falcon Pro and “Revoke Access” to the app. That should free up a token that you aren’t using for someone else.
2. If you flash ROMs with regularity, be careful. There are reports that after flashing, you are left without access. Titanium Backups of the app may still work, though.
3. A petition has been started, though I’m not sure what it can do. Here it is.
4. Follow @falcon_android for the latest.

Cheers Lake and Brendon!

Falcon Pro Twitter Client Reaches 100K Token Limit is a post from: Droid Life

Since we first reported on DashClock, the lock screen widget application from Android engineer Roman Nurik, the app has become somewhat of an international sensation. Most of us, even after a week with it, still can’t seem to get enough of it. The app’s growing feature list and set of extensions from 3rd party developers has made it the ultimate widget for your Android 4.2 lock screen. 

In a recent update that was released over the weekend, Nurik gave users the ability to control the transparency of the widget when on a home screen, center the clock (so that it’s no longer off-centered), and customize the shortcuts for both clock and weather, all of which were highly recommended features.

But on a related note, the flood of extensions for the app from other developers, has kicked into overdrive. As of this posting, we’re seeing extensions for Plume, a popular Twitter app, Facebook, dialer shortcuts, contact shortcuts, and a shortcut to WhatsApp.

Play Links:  DashClock | Plume | Facebook | Dialer | Contacts | WhatsApp | More

DashClock Update Includes New Customizations – Extensions for Facebook, Plume, and Others Released is a post from: Droid Life

Today, Twitter is releasing an update to their official Android application which brings improvements to their already decent Discovery and Search features. From now on, all tweets, trends, and activity will appear in a single stream for easy use. Furthermore, when searching, all relevant results (photos, tweets, etc.) will also appear in a single stream. Looks like someone at Twitter had a light bulb go off over their head.

To peep the full feature changelog, look below. 

Discover: Now all the content in Discover — Tweets, Activity, Trends and suggestions of accounts to follow — appears in a single stream, on both iPhone and Android. You can also dive into Activity and Trends from new previews at the top of the Discover tab.

Search: Search results now surface the most relevant mix of Tweets, photos, and accounts, all in one stream (similar to the stream in Discover). We’ve also added a new search button to Twitter for iPhone, letting you search from anywhere within the app. (This button was already available in the Android and iPad apps.) Look for the magnifying glass icon next to the button you use to compose a Tweet.

Connect: To provide a simpler experience in the Connect tab, the default view is now Interactions, which shows you new followers, retweets and mentions. If you prefer to view only your mentions in Connect, you can adjust the default in settings – find the “Connect tab” option and select “Mentions only”.

Links: Click a URL in a Tweet to go directly to that website from any timeline and get to content highlighted on Twitter faster. (Previously, when you tapped any part of a Tweet, it would first expand and then a second click was required to get to the website.)

The update doesn’t appear to be live yet, but it will be soon.

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Via: Twitter

Twitter Updates Official Android App, Brings Discovery and Search Improvements is a post from: Droid Life