Official Twitter App for Android Phones, Confirms Twitter CEO

Today at Twitter’s Chirp conference, CEO Evan Williams announced that the microblogging network would be launching an official Android app. Recently, Twitter acquired Atebits in an undisclosed price resulting into the acquisition of Tweetie which is the iPhone’s most popular Twitter client and coined it “Twitter for iPhone”. And on Friday, Twitter announced that RIM’s new BlackBerry app would be an “official Twitter app” for the device. Evan Williams was quoted saying-

“We found we were under-serving users. We realized we had to have a core experience on these major platforms just like we do on the Web, otherwise we are failing users. It’s (Android client) going to be awesome.”

The move was quite obvious after Fred Wilson, a Twitter board member and an investor with Union Square Ventures, said in a blog post that instead of fixing holes in Twitter’s product, a separate business arm should be added that can build “killer apps”. The statement shook the whole third party developers. But in order to march ahead fast, Twitter acquired the available popular twitter client “Tweetie” instead of developing its own twitter app that would otherwise take time.

Don’t get surprised if twitter releases their native twitter app on android platform, but the chances are few. Most likely Twitter will try to acquire an existing android app (may be Seesmic Android App or Twitdroid like Tweetie for iPhone) and is likely to rename the app as “Twitter for Android”.

Soon, Twitter will have its own official version of twitter client for the three major/growing smartphone platforms. Announcement of official twitter app for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and iPad means “Red Alert” for unofficial Twitter mobile clients like Echofon, TweetDeck, Twitdroid or Seesmic which may soon be out of the business.

Evan also said in an announcement that Twitter will be launching its own URL shortener. Red Alert for bit.ly as well!

Via-techcrunch