So, curiosity got the better of me and I've installed Twitter for Android, the official Twitter app. Here are some first impressions.

Handling of 'new' style retweets is the best I've seen. If someone retweets you via the twitter website using the retweet button you won't see that on other apps. In fact, if I was the suspicious sort I might think that Twitter had introduced the 'new' style retweet, then not added retweeted tweets into their API data stream, specifically so that only their app could handle it properly.

Lists integration is good as well, with support for creating, editing and adding users to a list.

On the down side, there's no text size setting, support for 'old' style retweets or multiple accounts.

So far it seems fast and stable. In fact, the word I'd use most is 'fun'. It's a bit simplified maybe, a tad cartoony, but it is fun.

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