San Francisco: Twitter has rolled out a new feature to the globally popular on-to-many text messaging service -- the ability to email ''Tweets'' directly from the message stream.
The new feature made its debut as the San Francisco-based film rolled out improved applications for using the service on iPhones or smartphones powered by Google-backed Android software.
''You can retweet any (Twitter messages) to your Twitter followers, bu sometimes you want to share with another group, like you college roommates or your parents or a friend who isn't yet on Twitter, '' engineer Stefan Filip said in a blog post.
''That's why we're introducing the ability to email a Tweet directly from twitter.com.''
The feature will be rolled out to all users of Twitter -- which allows it members to post brief comments, links or pictures -- in the coming week, accordig to Filip.
Updates to Twitter applications for iPhone and Android were designed to improve search results and highlight photos, videos and news shared at the service.via the news tribe
