Waiting For The New Twitter? Get A DM When You're Eligible

Alexia Tsotsis

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010


If you’re like me you don’t have the new Twitter yet (Wow, talk about a gradual roll-out fail. Hey dudes, I work for TechCrunch remember!). So what’s a girl to do other than stay up all night crying and manually refreshing Twitter.com until she gets a taste of that sweet sweet bifurcated screen?

Well there’s, yes, a Twitter app for that. For those of us that are still out of the split screen loop, Ryan LeFevre has made “Am I Upgraded Yet?” a simple app that direct messages you when you’re (finally) eligible to switch over.

So peace out guys, I’m going to sleep. And crossing my fingers that that DM will be there in the morning. Oh and in case you forgot, it’s @alexia.

Thanks: @pistachio and @moth

Company: Twitter
Website: twitter.com
Launch Date: March 21, 2006
Funding: $1.16B

Created in 2006, Twitter is a global real-time communications platform with 400 million monthly visitors to twitter.com, more than 200 million monthly active users around the world. We see a billion tweets every 2.5 days on every conceivable topic. World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations and entertainment outlets are among the millions of active Twitter accounts through which users can truly get the pulse of the planet.

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