Twitter has updated their official Android application and added a few features that many users have been waiting for. You can now see your timeline, replies, and direct messages in real-time with push notifications. You also have the ability to sign into multiple accounts at once without having to sign out from another.

The folks at Twitter say,

First, we now offer push notifications. Push notifications let you instantly receive Twitter updates – no matter what you’re doing on your phone. In your account settings, select “automatic refresh” and choose to receive updates for Direct Messages, @Mentions (from the people you follow or anyone), and Tweets.

You can also now use multiple accounts on Twitter for Android without ever logging out. It’s easy to switch between accounts to discover and share what’s happening in the world. Plus, we’ve updated the appearance of home screen widgets and added a bunch of other improvements and bug fixes.

With the ability to get push notifications on nearly every platform, Twitter is poised to take another leap forward in terms of usefulness and reliability. I’m sometimes amazed at how fast push notifications work in various apps like TweetDeck on the PC and Gravity for Symbian. Tweets seem to arrive faster than a text message.

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