Swiftkey to use Facebook and Twitter to learn how you think

Using Facebook, SwiftKey will work out how you think
Using Facebook, SwiftKey will work out how you think

The second generation of Swiftkey, a popular text-input app for Android, is set to be launched at Mobile World Congress 2011, and will use your Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts to learn how you type.

The app offers a different kind of text prediction to T9, the traditional predictive text, learning your writing style and suggesting phrases that you're likely to use in context.

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