Twitter Updates Apps With Photo Galleries, Improved Login Verification

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By Emily Price2013-08-06 19:58:41 UTC

Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps on Tuesday, adding social context and photo galleries into search results, as well as several improvements to login verification.

Now when you perform a search using Twitter’s mobile app, the menu will show how you connect, if at all, to other users whose tweets appear in results.

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Photo galleries also now appear in search. When viewing photos in the results, a “view more photos” option lets you see a gallery of all of the photos related to your search, rather than forcing you to swipe through individual thumbnails.

For iOS users, photo galleries are also available on user profiles. You can view all of a user’s photos at once and manage and organize lists and list subscriptions from your iPhone or iPad.

For both iOS and Android users, login verification no longer requires a phone number. The feature now uses push messaging and in-application approvals to verify accounts. Previously, Twitter required users with several different accounts to have separate phone numbers for each one.

Twitter's updated app is now available from the App Store and Google Play.

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Topics: apps, Apps and Software, Mobile, Tech, Twitter