Updates Twitter app a spy app for iOS and Android phones?

  Social media giant Twitter has found a clean route to becoming a mobile social media app, but it seems to be changing its functions.
Changing how? Well it seems to be leaning towards becoming a social media spy app for iOS and Android phones. Twitter’s latest version of their app for Android and iOS came out just last week. And the app is getting mixed reviews from users.
Twitter App turns mobile spy app:
New updates in the Twitter app for mobile actually allow the app to function like an Android spy app or even an iPhone spy app. As a user you can quite literally launch an espionage mission on your followers and monitor their activity thanks to the addition of the Discover Tab. Under this tab the option of Activity is available. Twitter blog tells us that this Activity is actually made up of a stream of updates which are tracking what people you follow do. This includes the Tweets that are favorites as well as those that are re-tweeted. Also, now you can see which accounts the same people in turn follow or add to lists. Stalking and spying on Twitter has just become loads easier.
Another feature is the ‘tapping a story’ option. This allows users to see Tweets regarding any trend or news item that they have ‘tapped’. This way they have a number of options as to how to interact with that particular thread. They may go through the entire story, join in on the conversation taking place through “replying, re-tweeting, or favoriting related Tweets” describes the Twitter blog. This is another place where the app behaves like a mobile spy app; when it lets you do such things. Even the updated Auto-complete feature reflects a little bit of the spyware that may have influenced this version. Now when you search for names, if you are using an iPhone you can go directly to the profile.
New style or tacky revamp?
If we are to ignore the added mobile spy app-like features for a bit and look at the improvements in the app, there don’t seem to be many noteworthy ones as users would expect. One of the improvements which can be seen in the app is related to the ‘notification’, ‘search’, and ‘discover’ features. This is indeed a progression towards easier usage but not enough apparently. Users are still complaining that the app could be much easier to use, despite some minor updates over the years.
One of the major features the complaints center around is Twitter’s inability to supply a‘re-tweet’ option. Twitter app for mobile is unable to give users the option to edit tweets. What it does provide is the chance to tweet the same content again with changes but in this the original tweet remains in place. The other alternative, or make shift edit option is to ‘Quote’ a Tweet. This allows the users to edit their content but puts quotation marks around the original tweet. Instead of allowing users to get rid of tweets they wish to amend, the app only further highlights the problem tweet much to the annoyance of users.
The New Role:
It seems that the folks over at Twitter have taken a leaf out of the book of mobile spyware apps and are considering that an updated version in itself. But for users though it may be considered a more interesting take on the social media app, it still hasn’t been able to retouch other important functions. Just turning the app into a spy app for your iPhone or Android is not enough for keen Twitter users.