If you use the official Twitter app for the iPhone or iPad, you’ll be interested to know about a significant update released tonight. Among the new features is push notifications for messages and mentions. There are some other great improvements as well.

These improvements include a simpler way to dismiss “panels” opened while navigating between users and links, more intuitive behavior for the aforementioned panels and various fixes to improve the user experience.

Twitter App Updated with Push Notifications, Improved iPad Interface, iOS 4.2 Compatibility [MacStories.net]