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Re: Please review my new application

#11

Post by Samuel_Michon »

combiclickwise wrote: post #7
Samuel_Michon wrote: post #4

Interesting idea. Some things I've noticed: 1) It could use a description on the main page, so that new users know what they're in for. 2) Scrolling through the result page (using the mouse's scroll wheel) makes my browser stall for > 10 seconds before loading new entries. (Firefox 3.6.3 on Win7) 3) The 'beta' badge on the main page has a very light yellow color, which makes the white text hard to read. The label tex…

Thanks for your time on this. Really appreciate it. I am working on the remove/unfollow user functionality already. The retweet/reply buttons is a very good idea :-) I had not seen the cropped 'y'. Will fix that too

Another thing that just occurred to me: since you're presenting the tweets out of their context, sorting them purely by user, perhaps it'd be better to remove replies from the flow? That way snippets of conversations wouldn't confuse the reader. I'm assuming this view is meant to find standalone tweets that contain insightful remarks or links/media?

Also, how about auto-converting links in tweets into embedded media? (images, YouTube, etc)

Re: Please review my new application

#12

Post by combiclickwise »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #11
combiclickwise wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your time on this. Really appreciate it. I am working on the remove/unfollow user functionality already. The retweet/reply buttons is a very good idea :-) I had not seen the cropped 'y'. Will fix that too

Another thing that just occurred to me: since you're presenting the tweets out of their context, sorting them purely by user, perhaps it'd be better to remove replies from the flow? That way snippets of conversations wouldn't confuse the reader. I'm assuming this view is meant to find standalone tweets that contain insightful remarks or links/media? Also, how about auto-converting links in tweets into embedded media?…

auto-converting links.. didn't occur to me at all. Thanks to remove re-tweets, I should probably set that as the default option (removed) and yet provide the user a way to turn it on

Re: Please review my new application

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Post by ski »

Cool spin on viewing tweets.

Since this shows multiple tweets from a single user, the ordering of the users becomes more important. I think its currently ordered by most recently followed. Some other orderings that might be interesting:

(1) Most recently tweeted

(2) Affinity - order by people I reply/RT the most

(3) List view - view users from a specific list

Also, would be nice if you could click on links in tweets directly.

Re: Please review my new application

#16

Post by combiclickwise »

ski wrote: post #14

Cool spin on viewing tweets. Since this shows multiple tweets from a single user, the ordering of the users becomes more important. I think its currently ordered by most recently followed. Some other orderings that might be interesting: (1) Most recently tweeted (2) Affinity - order by people I reply/RT the most (3) List view - view users from a specific list Also, would be nice if you could click on links in tweets…

List view is coming up. The user has to login using Twitter OAuth though (Twitter API requirement). I think ordering by affinity is a very interesting idea to pursue. Thank you

Re: Please review my new application

#17

Post by samratjp »

After spending eons reading twitter from Flipboard and Pulse, this layout reminded me of AllTop. It's a nice global view of finding out where's what but I personally had a hard time focusing on just one user because i have seen their older tweets. This would be a great non-intimidating way to catch up with twitter if you're out of the loop.

Re: Please review my new application

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Post by combiclickwise »

samratjp wrote: post #17

After spending eons reading twitter from Flipboard and Pulse, this layout reminded me of AllTop. It's a nice global view of finding out where's what but I personally had a hard time focusing on just one user because i have seen their older tweets. This would be a great non-intimidating way to catch up with twitter if you're out of the loop.

Yes. That was the use case. I would find it difficult to quickly get an idea about what everyone is been up to individually so I made it. You are right in that this is especially useful when you are out of the loop.
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