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I agree, but one point against that is that the web experience with Twitter is probably the worst - it's clunky. I hate using it. I use the phone app (simple,

by prawn 11y ago

I agree, but one point against that is that the web experience with Twitter is probably the worst - it's clunky. I hate using it. I use the phone app (simple, OK) and the OS X app (neglected, but a great way to use Twitter IMO). In those two apps, there isn't a logged out front page. They could improve both to create a useful equivalent though.

MichaelGG 11y ago
It's terrible. I recently started to use it and I'm shocked at how poor it is. Scroll down, see something interesting. Click. Now I've lost where I was, no way back. Going back reloads the entire page (slow) then, since content is loaded in after scrolling, scrolls one page down and stops. They're basically saying "don't engage too long with Twitter, just keep it quick and then stop". How they have 3000 employees and no one that has fixed their main product is very strange.
- prawn 11y ago
  If it was the only way to access Twitter, I would've given up. And Twitter is my favoured social network - just so frustrating to see how they're flailing around. Yet to see a single ad that was remotely relevant to me. Keep quitting the "While you were away" and acknowledging that I don't like it, but they keep showing it. Insane.
interpol_p 11y ago
Have you used Tweetbot? I find it to be an incredible desktop (and mobile) twitter client. Even syncs your scroll position between the two.
- prawn 11y ago
  No, I haven't. Probably the sort of thing Twitter should have in their own stable though. They should have better app options for content creators IMO. Not every user in a news-dominated social network is going to be a passive reader.
  - interpol_p 11y ago
    I don't think a product Tweetbot can exist in Twitter's stable because it cuts all the cruft out of the modern Twitter experience, and is likely the opposite of the direction Twitter would like to go. It has kind of happened already — Twitter bought Tweetie, which was a well-liked desktop client, and then let it languish.

by prawn 11y ago

MichaelGG 11y ago

It's terrible. I recently started to use it and I'm shocked at how poor it is. Scroll down, see something interesting. Click. Now I've lost where I was, no way back. Going back reloads the entire page (slow) then, since content is loaded in after scrolling, scrolls one page down and stops. They're basically saying "don't engage too long with Twitter, just keep it quick and then stop". How they have 3000 employees and no one that has fixed their main product is very strange.

prawn 11y ago
If it was the only way to access Twitter, I would've given up. And Twitter is my favoured social network - just so frustrating to see how they're flailing around. Yet to see a single ad that was remotely relevant to me. Keep quitting the "While you were away" and acknowledging that I don't like it, but they keep showing it. Insane.

interpol_p 11y ago

Have you used Tweetbot? I find it to be an incredible desktop (and mobile) twitter client. Even syncs your scroll position between the two.

prawn 11y ago
No, I haven't. Probably the sort of thing Twitter should have in their own stable though. They should have better app options for content creators IMO. Not every user in a news-dominated social network is going to be a passive reader.
- interpol_p 11y ago
  I don't think a product Tweetbot can exist in Twitter's stable because it cuts all the cruft out of the modern Twitter experience, and is likely the opposite of the direction Twitter would like to go. It has kind of happened already — Twitter bought Tweetie, which was a well-liked desktop client, and then let it languish.