Treefingers
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He's saying there's no screen rotation in the app other than when you're writing a tweet.
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Him saying "Now you can lay down while reading tweets again" implies to me that he didn't know you could lock rotation on the phone.
But if not, hopefully it informed someone! I remember some had their minds blown by that info last week.
Treefingers
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Ah, right, sorry
Yeah the more I use the app the more I notice how crippled it is now.
sixteen-bit
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I wish the iOS App defaulted to usernames, not actual names
That was one of Loren Brichter's innovations from Tweetie as well. Not too surprised to see why he left now
exactly. they hired him to get a head start with his Mac and iPhone apps but then they reworked them entirely - to the point where I'd say they're not as good now as the original versions.
It seems like a no brainer he would leave, assuming his priorities are for improving ease of use.
I wonder how tweetdeck will get changed.
It says on the website that you'll get the new version if you've downloaded the iOS or Android app uppdates.
Annoyingly there doesn't seem to be any way to change this.
Desktop client has been completely redone from scratch. It looks like they are stopping the mobile TweetDeck apps since they've removed all mention of them from their website.
It does, but I still needed to log out after updating the iOS client to get it.
Uh, what? He did use as he's been posting screenshots on twitter as well as his df post.
yeah, I think you misread one paragraph in his post.
he doesn't use the official twitter app everyday but he definitely used it when writing this post. But, once done with it, he's going back to the third party apps.
He does not use it as his primary app.
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I edited my post to be clearer. I said using, not used, meaning using regularly.
Which doesn't mean he didn't even use it. Everyone's only had one day to use the new app
yeah, but he still used it fulltime for a day to understand how the app works and comment on it. how could he even write about the changes to multiple profiles if he hadn't used it?
saying he wrote about it without using it is a false statement.
VICTORsaurio
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I downloaded the iPod touch app but still haven't got the redesigned website 
I'm still a big fan of twitterriffic on the iphone. It's very simple in design but it does a few things better than other apps, imo.
1) tweet marker support to keep your timeline position synced between devices. (this doesn't seem to work as reliably in tweetbot)
2) tap on a link once to open it. in other apps I've tried, you need to open up the tweet in a separate window to then open a link.
3) absolute simplest, cleanest UI. If you're more of a twitter reader than poster, it's a great, get-out-of-the-way interface.
1) tweet marker support to keep your timeline position synced between devices. (this doesn't seem to work as reliably in tweetbot)
2) tap on a link once to open it. in other apps I've tried, you need to open up the tweet in a separate window to then open a link.
3) absolute simplest, cleanest UI. If you're more of a twitter reader than poster, it's a great, get-out-of-the-way interface.
Again, that's not what I meant, so I edited my post. I am amazed he could muster so many words about something he uses sparingly.
planar1280
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tweetbot is still the best app. its too bad twitter destroyed tweetie. none of the good elements from tweetie went over to the twitter app. if tweetie were on the app store today it would have been still better than tweetbot
Sparingly? The update came out just yesterday. He's had a good 12 hours to use it. The points he make are pretty reasonable.
again, no one else writing about the new twitter app has used it any longer than he did.
it's only been available publicly for one day. there have been lots of writing about it. his commentary is no different. it's a big change from the previous version so his non-use of v3.0 doesn't mean anything regarding his commentary.
And if you're wondering why he was able to write so many words... well, that's Gruber. I think he once wrote two thousand words about using brushed metal in Safari
Tweetbot is on sale for 99 cents if you have an iPhone. Make the jump. This is the first time it's ever been on sale
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id428851691?mt=8
Dev is taking advantage of the situation. Tweetbot broke top 100 paid apps thanks to the new Twitter for iPhone update.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id428851691?mt=8
Dev is taking advantage of the situation. Tweetbot broke top 100 paid apps thanks to the new Twitter for iPhone update.
Damn good deal. Paid $3 but I have no problem supporting indies.
Hopefully it's updated with that feature but it's still not a substitute for me because having a clean app that I can leave on the corner of the screen updating by itself where I can manage more than one account, which also shows a star on the dock if I get a mention is still the optimal way to keep up with a timeline that updates every two seconds at certain times. Having to check on a browser window and click the "# new tweets" button was always a problem and source of distraction/procrastination to me, which the Mac app solves because I actually focus less if it's on a corner and doing its thing. It also gets the tweets faster than the main site, but that's the case for pretty much every single twitter client that isn't the web version, haha.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Well, his user experience critiques are right (Connect and Discover are like marketing buzzwords on shitty sites that no one actually wants to 'connect' with), and the UI is definitely janky and has lost the features that supposedly attracted the company to Tweetie to begin with. The complaints aren't really things you need to spend time with.
Kind of related, but you can see the conversation view in twitter for mac by double clicking an @ reply.
Buckethead
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Tweetbot is obscenely good.
I hope they make it Universal and add iPad support.
I hope they make it Universal and add iPad support.
You can click the balloon icon next to the reply button for that too, in case you don't want to double click.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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So is there an application or service that helps you to manage Lists? Like adding everyone you follow at once, and then you selectively delete.
From what I can see, you have to add every single person manually. What a shitty feature.
From what I can see, you have to add every single person manually. What a shitty feature.
So after spending a few days being frustrated with the new iOS Twitter app, I finally took Wario's suggestion and bought Tweetbot. Took me a while because I despise paying for apps, but the 99 cent sale helped sway me. Wow I'm really loving this app, it's awesome how you can really drill down into stuff, much less crashing, all the shortcuts are awesome and make everything feel much faster. Being able to bind triple tap to certain actions alone is so cool. After spending 2 days with Tweetbot I really can't go back to the official one now.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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That's pathetic.
I hate going in blind and paying for apps that don't have any sort of demo as I've been burned a few times in the past, and also in my experience most of the highest quality apps are the free ones, like say Instagram, Dropbox, Pandora, etc.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Okay, that makes sense. What you wrote before implied you don't care to pay developers for their work at all.
Don't have the new web twitter interface, got the new Tweetdeck desktop program and the new Twitter mobile app.
The new Tweetdeck, which is what I primarily use looks cleaner but some of the changes in it's functionality are boggling. It seems very featureless. I find it weird that in order to tweet you have to press a button that brings up the tweeting window. Then after you type in your tweet, you can't just hit enter you have to pretty much mouse over and click the Tweet button. The tab order on the window goes from tweet -> upload photo/vid/etc first.
I'm interested in playing with the new Twitter web client.
The new Tweetdeck, which is what I primarily use looks cleaner but some of the changes in it's functionality are boggling. It seems very featureless. I find it weird that in order to tweet you have to press a button that brings up the tweeting window. Then after you type in your tweet, you can't just hit enter you have to pretty much mouse over and click the Tweet button. The tab order on the window goes from tweet -> upload photo/vid/etc first.
I'm interested in playing with the new Twitter web client.
Twitter bought Tweetdeck to seemingly kill it. The new updates make it pretty much shit.
Yep. Aside from the multiple column layout, they've removed everything that made TweetDeck the best app. Thank God the old desktop version still works.
God knows what's happening with the mobile versions.
I haven't updated the mobile version of TweetDeck, especially after I saw the desktop program. I'm gonna go back to the old TweetDeck on my desktop tonight.
There is no update to the mobile versions, and they've removed all trace of them from the TweetDeck website which only has links to the web and desktop versions now. Looks like they've quietly killed them like with the iPad app.
If you've got an Android phone then someone from MoDaCo has taken the app and slightly updated it himself http://tinyurl.com/bmcx2lc
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