Twitter announces profile page changes

Post by Karunamon » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

smokinjoe wrote: post #24

Karunamon wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The normal response to this would be "You get an app if you're more interested in the content", but then I realized that Twitter is going out of their way to kill off apps. Somewhat distressing.

Don't get carried away, if they truly wanted to absolutely kill off apps, they'd just close their API.

Seems like a gradual winding down to me. First a bunch of onerous and (frankly utterly fucktarded) UI restrictions which completely limit the utility of any multi-social-network clients (this was the one that really grinds my gears), then the hard cap on the number of users that any one API user can have.. what's next?

Post by jonknee » Tue, Sep 18, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

srj55 wrote: post #28

jonknee wrote: post #20

The new iPad app is atrocious. I thought I somehow accidentally got the phone version somehow because it appeared so jumbled. It's better in portrait, but I normally use landscape and there is an incredible amount of unused space. I still haven't figured out how to switch to my other Twitter accounts, I just see one. The web view is now full screen so I can't read tweets and have a link open at the same time (handy w…

Agree. I also use the iPad in landscape and this app is definitely a big step back. So much wasted/unused space.

It's like they didn't consider landscape at all. Rotating simply adds margins to the side of the main UITableView. Baffling. But after they made a power play to ensure they don't have competition in the Twitter app space, it's infuriating.

In a very short time they have taken out 3rd party apps and made their own worse (for no apparent gain on their end, the new app doesn't appear to have more ads or anything).

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