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