Official Twitter App for Android Updated

Good news for those who prefer the official Twitter app for Android, which according to our recent poll is quite a few of you. Twitter for Android has been updated today to offer a number of new features including:

• Swipe shortcut: Swipe a Tweet in your home timeline to reply to, retweet, favorite or share it, or view the Twitter user’s profile, without leaving your timeline.
• “Find friends”: We’ve added a confirmation alert when you select “Find friends”. This notification more clearly and explicitly messages the fact that when you upload your contacts’ email addresses and phone numbers, you can quickly find which of your friends are on Twitter (that is, if they’ve chosen to be discoverable by email or phone number).

Twitter for Android is also now optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich, the Kindle Fire, the Nook Color and Nook Tablet. The update is available now in the Android Market.