Dustin Curtis found that Twitter has a patent on Twitter/Tweetie’s pull-to-refresh gesture. Update (2012-03-29): Buzz Andersen: Ultimately, I decided to nix the pull-to-refresh idea and go with a straightforward button because I felt the whole thing was a bit too self-consciously clever and not discoverable enough (the above iteration of the design was actually an … Continue reading The Pull-to-Refresh Patent