Twitter updates its Windows 10 UWP app to PWA with support for push notifications

The UWP Twitter app for Windows 10 had more or less been left for expressionless. It hadn't been updated in forever, and was missing simple changes to the Twitter service such as the increase from 180 to 240 character tweets. Today, however, Twitter has finally updated its Windows 10 app, changing it from a UWP to PWA. This is practiced news.

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The new Twitter app looks identical to the mobile Twitter PWA website yous tin detect online, except now information technology's wrapped in a window that makes the app feel native. It also supports push notifications, meaning you don't have to take the app open up to see any replies to tweets. It doesn't appear to support live tiles just yet, yet.

Considering it'south the PWA version of Twitter, it has all the latest changes and enhancements you tin observe on the Twitter service, for better or worse. This includes grapheme increase in tweets, bookmarking tweets, changing to the Twitter timeline algorithm, and a whole lot more than.

The do good hither is Twitter no longer has to properly maintain the Twitter app for Windows 10. At present that it's a PWA, any changes it makes to the mobile website should automatically be applied to the PWA app, which can run in any platform that supports PWAs. This should mean Windows x users won't become left behind when big changes are introduced to the Twitter service.

Microsoft's Kyle Pflug, who works on Edge, chimed in on Twitter noting that all the features aren't here still. When the "Spring Creators Update" rolls out more than features will come online:

Hey wait at that! 👀 (Note: Service worker won't light upward in the installed PWA until RS4 ships to stable, so expect comeback soon!) https://t.co/PaKPzqdQkX
— Kyle Pflug (@kylealden) March 23, 2022

The new Twitter PWA app is rolling out as an update for the existing Twitter app for Windows 10, which means yous might take to reauthenticate your account once the update is installed. Allow us know in the comments what you think most this new update!

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