Twitter has confirmed to be internally testing push notifications on the iPhone, which means that the official Twitter for iPhone application will soon receive the feature. The capability was discovered yesterday, when an updated version of the application was released.
Those that have installed the iOS 4.1 Gold Master — which Apple made available to developers on Wednesday – are able to see and enable the push notifications feature. However, the capability doesn’t appear to be working just yet. It will probably go live once iOS 4.1 is publicly released.
Twitter released the following statement:
“We’ve been testing push notifications internally. When we launched Twitter for iPad, there was a configuration error that caused us to offer push messages to a small set of users. We’ve stopped sending push messages, but users may see an option to turn on push until we release an updated version of the app. So, push isn’t ready yet but we look forward to rolling this out soon.”
It’s currently unknown which specific items will be pushed. It’s believed that private messages and replies will be included. We’ll be able to determine once the feature goes live.
via TechCrunch