Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by ferostar » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 4:07 AM UTC

Twitter for iPad is here
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Re: Twitter for iPad is here

#2

Post by dpcan » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:11 AM UTC

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 still using Twitter, why? What value can I possibly extract from this thing? What are you getting out of it?

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by aditya » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:13 AM UTC

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...

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#4

Post by extension » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:41 AM UTC

I just installed it on my iPad and I'm only seeing the old iPhone interface. Anybody else have this problem?

EDIT: never mind, I just got the app update. I guess app store updates are not atomic.

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Post by joevandyk » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:46 AM UTC

extension wrote: post #4

I just installed it on my iPad and I'm only seeing the old iPhone interface. Anybody else have this problem? EDIT: never mind, I just got the app update. I guess app store updates are not atomic.

Yup, same here.

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by johns » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:56 AM UTC

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.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:58 AM UTC

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...

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Post by johns » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 5:59 AM UTC

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.

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Post by seldo » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 6:01 AM UTC

extension wrote: post #4

I just installed it on my iPad and I'm only seeing the old iPhone interface. Anybody else have this problem? EDIT: never mind, I just got the app update. I guess app store updates are not atomic.

I found that hitting the "updates" tab repeatedly caused the availability of the Twitter app to come in and out -- presumably because I was cycling through servers, some of which had the update and some of which didn't.

Re: Twitter for iPad is here

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Post by pufuwozu » Thu, Sep 02, 2010, 6:01 AM UTC

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 know that Discovery Channel gunman, James Lee? Photos of him were going around Twitpic before reporters could even get to the building. Think of it as real-time publishing for the masses.

Twitter definitely has value - it's just completely overwhelmed with junk.