The new Twitter client, downloadable here in the Store, is pretty, acquires your chosen dark/light theme correctly from the OS, auto-plays animations and handles embedded media intelligently, plus you can dismiss the virtual controls in the usual UWP manner. Here's the update in action:
The look hasn't changed much, despite the rewrite - but that's not a bad thing, and I like the way the theme is picked up as dark on my AMOLED-screened Lumia 950.
Settings are hidden away in the profile section, which is still a bit counter-intuitive, though I get how it might help with more than one account set up; (right) annoyingly, the notifications section is broken at the moment and your choices (e.g. not to be bothered all the time) can't be saved....
There's quite a bit still to do for the Twitter team though:
- This client, despite being universal, doesn't work at all with Continuum. Which is very odd, surely this is an easy one to fix?
- You can't swipe between panes/views, as on every other Twitter client since the dawn of time
- 'Back' behaviour can be bizarre. E.g. you just try closing the Twitter app after a bit of navigation between different panes.
- All integration with the People application under Windows 10 has vanished. So no contact syncing, no contact status updates, etc.
So take this as a starting point on Windows 10 Mobile and let's hope that Twitter moves forward quickly - the current binary will put as many people off as it attracts!
PS. As the name suggests, this is Windows 10 only, working on Insider-upgraded and W10M-native phones.