Twitter Pushes App Installs With “App Spotlight” For Profiles & “Install Actions” For Timelines

Twitter unveiled a new way that people can pin apps on their Twitter profile pages called App Spotlight. This appears to be in addition to pinning tweets to the top of a profile page.

Announced at the Twitter Flight developers conference today in San Francisco, the new feature enables people to install apps directly from within a Twitter profile. You can see an example of it here:

Twitter also said there are new Timeline Install Actions coming that will allow installation from timelines without apparently leaving the timeline.

We’ll update with more as the formal news appears.

For more coverage of the conference, see our live blog here.