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Twitter's new official app for the Mac violates several of these display guidelines.

• alnayyir 16y ago
  Yeah but dey da boss. They get to be as hypocritical and arbitrary as they like. If you go sharecroppin' on somebody else's plot of land, don't expect to be afforded any rights or respect by the owner. Eventually people will figure this out. Eventually.
  • chime 16y ago
    > Yeah but dey da boss > go sharecroppin' If this is a reference to something, I don't get it. If not, why are you writing like this? Edit: Thanks alnayyir. I knew there was something I was missing.
    • alnayyir 16y ago
      http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=software+sharecropping http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubun...
    • JonnieCache 16y ago
      It's a reference to civil war era america. Elaborate user-generated-content metaphor?
      • philwelch 16y ago
        The post Civil War South, actually. Sharecropping wasn't really a thing in the North, and before and during the Civil War, there wasn't very much sharecropping because slavery was more cost-effective.
        • alnayyir 16y ago
          ding ding ding. This man gets ALL the dollars.
    • graham-miln 16y ago
      chime, sharecropping in terms of software development is a topic that Tim Bray has an interesting take on: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePlace http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...
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• sandofsky 16y ago
  Could you elaborate?
• jgilliam 16y ago
  The tweet box doesn't have "What's happening" and the user's name doesn't link to their profile. The official app does the right thing, IMO, it just shows how silly some of the guidelines are. Particularly requiring "What's happening?" I bet most Twitter apps violate that one.