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Twitter makes it easier for anyone to curate and post tweet collections
When Twitter launched Moments, it talked briefly about its launch partners and how eventually anyone would be able to build their own moments. Until that happens, Twitter is launching an ecosystem using the same tools used by Moments to help publishers, developers and really anyone who's wanted to put together a collection of tweets for a post. Using Tweetdeck or the newly launched Curator tool, people can find tweets they would like to build into a story. The Curator tool also includes 20 different filters to help find relevant tweets and put those updates in whatever order you want. Then you can drop the URL or collection ID of your tweet compilation into publish.twitter.com for an embed code. Drop that code into any site and you're good to go.
Twitter will finally update its OS X app later this year
While Twitter's iOS and Android apps have gotten regular updates, the OS X version has languished -- the company has shown it very little love in the past few years. But, today at Twitter's Flight developer conference, developer platform lead Jeff Seibert announced that the OS X application would be receiving a refresh before the end of the year. In particular, it'll have native gif and Vine playback, as well as a "dark mode." Hopefully that theme will make its way to the Android and iOS apps.
