Warm up your Twitter fingers, the latest Nokia Messaging* for social networks beta has now added support for Twitter, making tweeting even more convenient from the homescreen of your Nokia handset. Back in September 2009, we introduced the first iteration of the social networking beta that let people view, post, and comment on messages, share their location and status while keeping up with their Facebook friends right from their Nokia handsets. This was only the start.

The majority of the feedback given by beta testers was to add support for other social networking communities (Twitter, done! More to come!) Testers also asked for enhancements to the Facebook functionality. We took your advice and have added these new features:

• Upload pictures and videos
• Events: View upcoming events, birthdays and import to device calendar
• Search friends
• Click-to-call / click-to-SMS / click-to-FB Email

We invite you to download and test drive this social networking client from Nokia Beta Labs. This is an early preview, currently available on Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, and Nokia 5800 devices, we will support more devices in the future. We also invite you to visit http://messaging.nokia.com to see what’s available for your device from Nokia Messaging.

Key features

• Contextual homescreen widget – jump directly to your Facebook and Twitter posts and tweets to comment.
• Live Facebook and Twitter updates pushed to your phone homescreen
• Update your status on Twitter
• View / reply to your Tweets
• Communication choices – multiple ways to interact with your friends and social network circles straight from the client (e.g. post a comment, call, SMS, or email)
• Share your current location and your points of interest in a post or in a message leveraging device GPS location and Ovi Maps (e.g. view friends’ location, add your location)
• Multi pictures uploads
• Video uploads
• Search
• Full profile support
• Save Facebook invites to phone calendar
• Events: View upcoming events, birthdays
• Support for Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5800. More device support coming

Compatibility and system requirements

The Nokia Messaging for Social Networks Beta is compatible with the N97, N97 Mini and 5800, and performs much better if you are running the latest firmware on your device. We are working to add support for more devices and more communities in the future. Keep following BetaLabs for updates.

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