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Twitter for iPad is here

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Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by Terretta »

johns wrote: post #8
aditya wrote: post #3

Everyone is raving about the app and I think it introduces some interesting UI/X elements but after playing with it for a few minutes, it just feels cluttered to me. Compare that to both tweetdeck and twitterific which feel great on the iPad...

TweetDeck on iPad is infuriating to use. It's buggy, crashes all the time, doesn't have feature parity in landscape and portrait modes, and is super slow. Yet, I keep using it because multi-column is the killer feature for me. I wish they'd fix it up though.

What did you think about Shiny Tweet's columns?

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by Terretta »

johns wrote: post #6
dpcan wrote: post #2

Will someone explain the first sentence? "Are you addicted to Twitter?" What does that mean? How does that happen? What exactly are people getting "addicted" to? I've used Twitter here and there, posted, or used it for a real-time search, but it just seems like retweets of the same articles over and over again, and then just constant regurgitation of the same information ... or tweets about nothing at all. If you're…

You're following the wrong people. Seriously. Follow your interests, unfollow liberally, tweet consistently. Put noisy but important people on lists (don't need to follow them for this). That's what I do. I talk to our customers. I talk to other devs that use the same tools I do. I talk to people who like the same sports teams I do. Find your community and talk to them. It's been immensely valuable for me.

Your comment should be on Twitter's welcome screen. It hadn't occurred to me to movie noisy people into lists.

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by Nekojoe »

johns wrote: post #8
aditya wrote: post #3

Everyone is raving about the app and I think it introduces some interesting UI/X elements but after playing with it for a few minutes, it just feels cluttered to me. Compare that to both tweetdeck and twitterific which feel great on the iPad...

TweetDeck on iPad is infuriating to use. It's buggy, crashes all the time, doesn't have feature parity in landscape and portrait modes, and is super slow. Yet, I keep using it because multi-column is the killer feature for me. I wish they'd fix it up though.

TweetDeck on iPhone is the same. The multi account feature was what won me over in the first place. I liked it as I could use it for managing both my personal and websites twitter account. Unfortunately that's broken right now. The issue is mentioned on their support forums, but no one at TweetDeck seem to have picked up.

The only other issue I have is a minor UI gripe. When you click on the run in background button, the progress bar and cancel button for the background tweet covers the back button on the main part of the app. It’s odd that they did that.

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by duck »

dmix wrote: post #25
duck wrote: post #22

When I click on the read more link I get a page not found? http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/twitter-for-ipad/Adventures...

Not the most disappointing discovery.

True, I'm not sure why I even bother reading TechCrunch, but I guess I have a habit.

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by Terretta »

Terretta wrote: post #23
johns wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're following the wrong people. Seriously. Follow your interests, unfollow liberally, tweet consistently. Put noisy but important people on lists (don't need to follow them for this). That's what I do. I talk to our customers. I talk to other devs that use the same tools I do. I talk to people who like the same sports teams I do. Find your community and talk to them. It's been immensely valuable for me.

Your comment should be on Twitter's welcome screen. It hadn't occurred to me to movie noisy people into lists.

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