Hooray! Long-suffering Android users waiting for the ultimate Twitter experience need not wait much longer. The company has released a blog post with some pretty heavy words. They are calling it “the future of their iPhone and iPad platforms” and “a thing of beauty,” all heavy rhetoric for an app.

But if the hyperbole turns out to be true, it will explain why Tweetdeck’s mobile front has been silent for months. There hasn’t been a sizeable iPhone update for a long time, and the iPad app has never been updated since it was released on day one in April. In fact, I have found the iPad app so buggy, I deleted it off my device.

We will update later this week when the beta is officially released, but this is a huge app for Android as a platform.

Full blog post after the break:

To get straight to the point, we’re nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we’ve really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to us because it’s more than just TweetDeck on Android.

First off, we’ve built Android TweetDeck from the ground up to be true multi-stream, laser focused on showing you all your friends’ cross-service activity in one app. Multi-column is still the order of the day but now columns are blended based on the type of activity rather than the service. And all this whilst retaining the most powerful functionality from each included service.

We’ve spent an inordinate amount of time making the app silky smooth from the column scrolling to the custom views - so much so that one of Google’s Android Developer Advocates recently described it as “a thing of beauty“. So look out for the beta test later this week and please do get involved.

Interestingly Android TweetDeck also represents the future of our iPhone and iPad applications. We’ll have a few bug fix releases shortly (awaiting approval in the app store) but in the background we are working on porting Android to iPhone in as quick a time as possible. Finally, it won’t be long before most of the new concepts in Android TweetDeck make it to the desktop and web - we’re also working on this now.

Speaking of the desktop, we have a new build available now which contains a workaround for a Facebook bug which caused TweetDeck to order updates incorrectly.

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