- November 17th, 2010 by Ryan Denker
Twitter for iPhone finally has push notifications. It took long enough, as it was a feature I’d been yearning for since Tweetie was picked up by Twitter and the iPhone app had a name change. So now when you get @ mentions on Twitter, you’ll also receive a push notification like you would when you get a text message.
The only problem I’ve seen so far is that it seems to work only when the tweet starts immediately with your username. As an example:
@Xenohub I love your website! It’s sweet. LOL.
Messages like that will get pushed straight to your iPhone. But if your Twitter handle is buried within the message, they don’t seem to appear – at least not for me:
So I read about Twitter for iPhone updates on @Xenohub and it’s pretty cool.
Tweets like the one above, where the mention of the account is within the message, don’t seem to get pushed at all.
If you haven’t already updated your app, do it! Open up the app store if you have Twitter for iPhone and you’ll see the update ready to. If you’re using another Twitter client, I highly recommend the official one. It’s clean, easy to use and works well with almost all the little things you’ll ever need to do like adding images or links.
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