You can now help beta-test unreleased new features in Twitter for iPhone and iPad

Twitter this morn announced a arrive at novel app that lets anyone kicking the bucket a beta tester for unreleased novel Twitter features on iPhone together with iPad.

From the official announcement:

Want to aid us construct around novel Twitter features? We desire it to live on easier to read, sympathize together with bring together conversations—and we’d beloved to know what you lot think. Sign upward to live on i of the commencement to attempt out our novel epitome app, twttr.

To apply, arrive at amount out the Twitter Prototype Program application form.

You’ll involve to response a few elementary questions together with operate inwards your Twitter user advert then they tin update you lot on your application condition via an electronic mail address associated alongside your Twitter account. You tin facial expression to remove heed from Twitter inside a few weeks.

TechCrunch says the app volition examination novel designs for the conversations characteristic at launch:

Initially, the novel twttr app volition focus on testing novel designs for conversations. As the fellowship demonstrated at CES, the epitome app volition present a unlike format for replies, where conversations themselves induce got a to a greater extent than rounded chat-like shape together with are indented then they’re easier to follow. Engagements, sharing options together with other tweet details are hidden from persuasion inwards lodge to simplify reading through longer threads.

And, well-nigh notably, the unlike types of replies are color-coded to designate those from the master poster every bit good every bit those Twitter users you lot personally follow. This is meant to offering meliorate visual cues to readers who are trying to follow a lengthier thread where, often, side conversations induce got place, or the master poster jumps inwards to clarify things or respond to private tweets.

The software launched today for the commencement grouping of participants.

If you lot already applied, facial expression an electronic mail confirmation together with farther updates inwards the side past times side few days. If you’re currently on the waitlist, rest tuned every bit the fellowship volition live on adding participants over time. The Twttr epitome testing app is available via Apple’s TestFlight beta program, too.

The Twitter Prototype Program is entirely available for iOS at this time.

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