Twitter for iOS updated

The official Twitter app for iOS has been updated to 3.2.2, and although it contains various bug fixes it doesn’t bring in the fix many users have been calling for.

Since the beginning of March, Twitter’s new  ‘Quick Bar‘ has been annoying users. The Quick Bar adds trends to your Twitter feed, so you can always see what’s trending, and includes one promoted trend. A promoted trend seems to be a bit of an oxymoron – if it’s promoted then it’s an advert, and not really a trend, is it?

While this trend bar no longer floats around the Twitter app like a bad smell, it still can’t be switched off, meaning you are forced to see whatever trends are happening in the region you choose. As many people have pointed out, what’s trending is not always what you want to see, and can also sometimes be offensive.

Hopefully the Quick Bar will quietly disappear soon. It’s no longer mentioned in the iTunes store description, so we can still hope it will be retired! Otherwise, if you really want to be rid of this annoying ‘feature’, either switch app (I like Echofon), or switch to an Android device, where the official app is free of the Quick Bar!