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Twitter for iPad is here

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Actually, no. Twitter for iPad is here -http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271

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.

Yeah, from what I hear it's top of their priority list post the Android release

What did you think about Shiny Tweet's columns?

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.

I guess app store updates are not atomic.

Yeah, I was able to get the iPad update by uninstalling the iPhone-only version and reinstalling it, but not through the traditional "Update" tab. Some things start to get strange at the scale of the App Store.

Yup, same here.

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?

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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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.

I know people addicted to twitter, it has replaced IRC for a lot of people. They follow all their friends who follow them back. So they whenever anything happens, they tweet it, their friends respond to it, etc...

It is just like the old chat rooms for some people. They will post 100s of tweets a day, stuff that happened to them, but mainly response to other people. It is an ongoing conversation these people are having over weeks and months. They make friends with some, then lose them.

Lots of people don't use twitter that way, and I don't think it is the best way.

Think of it as an interest network-- albeit one that can get noisy, if you're not careful.

I got started realizing I can follow smart people doing phds, entrepreneurs, hackers etc who are doing things I'm interested in. And occasionally, I can ask them questions.

My followee list has evolved over time when my interests change or when someone gets too noisy.

When viewing someone's profile, you can see what I presume is their chronological user id. @jack, for example, is #12; @ev is #20. @paulg's recently created account is ~183M, and a brand new account came in at 185M.

Wonder if it's a bug or intentional that they're now releasing this info. I might not be update the app...

This info has always been available: the RSS feed attached to everyone's profile page is by ID.

For example, mine is feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/13192.rss

I like how it actually allows you to see @username replies in context.

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.

Maybe I'm just looking at this the wrong way, but the way I'm seeing it they've developed an application with "layers" (or "windows" if you like).

Wasn't the selling point of the iPad that it was a simple to use platform and device, with everything running fullscreen and without confusing stacks and layers of applications and windows? That it wasn't a "normal" computer?

Amazing how quickly things go full circle these days.

The iPad app works in 'layers' in the sense that each time you drill down into something (a tweet, a user account, etc.), it shows that on top of what you were doing before, but still shows a slim strip on the left so that you can go back to where you were.

There's no mixing around, and everything's entirely linear. That's different from a windowing system, in which several different things are clamoring for your attention and mixing together.

Considering Apple has a native way for showing UIViewControllers as windows, overlayed on top of your app, I'll have to disagree with you on that.

http://dailyiphoneblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ipad-m...

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