Twitter for Mac Update Improves Photo Sharing, Adds Retina Support

Emily Price2013-04-25 19:06:40 UTC

Twitter issued an update on Thursday for Twitter for Mac for the first time since 2011, bringing a number of improvements to the Mac version of the app.

Most notably, the update improves photo sharing. Now to add a photo to a tweet, you can simply click on the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the box where you’re composing your tweet, and add a photo from your computer. An operation that works much like the experience on Twitter's mobile apps.

If you miss the drag-and-drop functionality, you can also still add photos that way from your desktop as well.

In addition to the photo improvements, Twitter also added Retina display support to the Mac application, and support for 14 more languages: Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Turkish.

The updated version of Twitter for Mac is available now from the Mac App Store.

Mashable composite, images via iStockphoto, fonikum and Twitter

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