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The official Twitter app for the iPhone has arrived in the App Store. As we know it's the Tweetie app, rebranded by Twitter after they acquired developer Atebits.

The app first appeared in New Zealand's App Store and worked its way globally to the other App Stores. Additiuonally, Twitter for iPhone is now, as promised, free of charge. Formerly, Tweetie was priced at $2.99 in the U.S. App Store. In addition to re-branding the app, however, several changes were made, and the version upped to 3.0.

Tweetie is now Twitter! We didn’t just do a name change, we’ve added a bunch of new stuff.

Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users.

Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends...winner combo!

You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets.

Sign-up is now availabile within the application as well, complete with Suggested user list.

More tab has been re-organized to accomplish all this. Users with one account can add a second account under the Accounts and Settings button here.

Actions we’ve found people use most, like Retweet have been moved to the main actions bar.

Minor tweaks were made to tweet rendering so they match Twitter.com tweets