Does anyone else think Amazon will come sweeping in at the last moment and make an offer? Bezos already owns WP and Twitter has a significant user base of media outlets.
Confused me there for a second.
I guess there is the issue of WaPo being owned by Bezos directly though, not Amazon.
I don't want to insult anyone or anything, but is Twitter frontend that impressive really?
Twitter's website currently is not Responsive. The web interface looks different on every platform (mobile, tablet, desktop). And on mobile, the website is terribly slow.
Right now it's hidden behind a magnifying glass.
I don't find the clickbaity trends they highlight on the homepage very interesting. The content is mostly the same as the MSN homepage.
Just let me search for things I find interesting.
Plus, search can be monitized way better, because you know for sure what the user is looking for.
Responsive or adaptive should be choice made at the start of projects and then ideally followed through till the end.
We choose responsive and made atomic components so it can work, but... it has to be in the thought process from design to implementation, the same can be said about adaptive.
Source: Our UI is complex, large, responsive and serves 3 million users and won awards.
Just one example, trying to view an image on twitter: on the timeline images get cropped to some fixed aspect ration, if you click on them twitter will open its weird mediaviewer popup where the image is not cropped but it is resized to fit an even smaller rectangle. As far as I can tell the only way to see the image at its original resolution is to (1) click on it to open the mediaviewer pseudopopup, (2) right click on the image inside the mediaviewer pseudopopup, (3) select "copy image location", (4) select the URL bar, (5) paste the image URL.
And that's just one example that you would think is easy to fix but apparently isn't, there's many more (threading is shit, clickable areas are unnecessarily huge, sometimes keyboard arrows stop scrolling, there's no distinction between "talking about someone" and "talking to someone", two different "screen name" fields with one or the other being given prominence depending on context...)