Twitter for Windows Phone gets pushy, adds Notifications support

Starting this week, Windows Phone users with a Twitter fixation will have a much easier time feeding the little, blue, bird-shaped beast. The latest update to the app features long-awaited Notifications support. Downloading version 1.5 will deliver such important Twitter info as retweets, mentions, direct messages, new followers and favorited tweets to the forefront where they belong. You can download the app in the source link below and then tell all your friends through the microblogging service of your choice, whatever that might be. Fair warning in the meantime -- a number of folks are reporting issues with the update, and we've had some difficulty getting it up an running on our own handsets. Feel free to sound off in the comments below -- since you may have some trouble doing so on Twitter.

Twitter Will Host a WWDC Open House, Whoops! It’s Sold Out!

Twitter announced an open house event session during the WWDC, which will be thrown by Twitter’s Mobile and Engineering teams. The event will be centered around tech talks, with food and beer, and attendees are limited, and guess what? It’s already sold out.

Twitter notes that this is not a press event, so it will obviously be a developer outreach timed for when they’ll be around for the WWDC.

Two talks will be given at the event, one by Ben Sandofsky, Twitter’s lead on Twitter for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the other will be given by Chris Mitra, and engineer on the iOS team.