Twitter PWA for Windows 10 receives first round of updates

Twitter has rolled out its kickoff round of 'updates' for its new Twitter Progressive Web App for Windows 10. Final week, Twitter became the kickoff developer in the Microsoft Store to re-release its app every bit a PWA, bringing with it new features and capabilities that the old UWP app was lacking.

Unfortunately, while the PWA brought with it lots of new features and enhancements, information technology likewise introduced a few new bugs and was missing a couple noteworthy capabilities that the older UWP app had. Thank you to the nature of PWA, nevertheless, Twitter has already rolled out a round of updates that add together and improve on a few things.

Beginning, and most notably, the app will no longer request a review every time y'all open it. This was one problems that affected pretty much everyone, and then it's expert to run into it'due south already been stock-still. Also fixed is the EU cookie dialog constantly popping upwards; if you dismiss that dialog, the app should call back that now.

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Finally, Twitter has added the ability to paste images directly from the clipboard into a tweet. This was something many people complained was missing from the Twitter PWA, so Twitter added it back. What'due south impressive is all of these changes rolled out without Twitter having to submit an app update in the Microsoft Store.

Thanks to PWA, Twitter tin update its PWA on its end, and those changes become automatically applied to the Twitter PWA app on Windows 10 without requiring an entire app update through the Store. This means Twitter can motility faster on app updates when required, which is beneficial for users and Twitter.

There's also more of an incentive for Twitter to update its PWA than there was for Twitter to update its specific UWP app. PWA runs on any platform, and then any changes made to the PWA gets applied across Windows 10, Android, iOS and whatever other platform that supports PWA. That'south the beauty of the Progressive Spider web App.

Twitter says information technology volition exist adding more features to the Twitter PWA over the next few weeks, including the ability to upload video, and even live tile support. If yous don't have the new Twitter PWA nevertheless, that'south because the app is only bachelor on the upcoming Jump Creators Update.

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