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Even twitter does that! Yet we are yet to see horrendous profile pages on Twitter. Reasons: 1) Twitter crowd is "relatively sober" (no data to prove this). 2)
by tuhin 16y ago
Even twitter does that! Yet we are yet to see horrendous profile pages on Twitter. Reasons:
1) Twitter crowd is "relatively sober" (no data to prove this).
2) Twitter does not go all out on the options. The tools are limited to a huge extent with a majority of page still covered by tweets esp in the new design. Hence less chance of the user to play their part.
- underdown 16y agoTwitter profiles can get pretty tacky.
- artmageddon 16y agoI could be wrong, but Twitter doesn't allow custom CSS, cursor changes, scroll tags, and it doesn't let you blast horrible horrible music in the faces of their readers. That, to me, is a plus. It's a little weird since I prefer to give the users as much control as allowable when I write applications for them... but this has shown me that sometimes great power is not always treated with great responsibility :)
- haribilalic 16y agoTwitter lets you change only the colours and the background. The rest of the page elements are the same across every profile. MySpace let you change anything and everything, because it allowed custom HTML and CSS. There are plenty of examples where entirely different types of profiles were used, including Flash ones, which could be used with little more than copying and pasting HTML and CSS, e.g. http://www.flaashy.com/index.php?m=Layouts&e=view&id=28 http://www.flaashy.com/index.php?m=Layouts&e=view&id....
- yardie 16y agoI have seen some pretty poorly done twitter pages. At least they didn't take it to the level that myspace did with flaming text, music, videos, pictures, and embedded objects all on one page sometimes playing simultaneously with no visible controls. And most of the interaction with twitter is rarely done with the userpage. I visit twitter.com, maybe, 20 times a month. The rest of the time its used through an intelligently designed app.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThe difference is that such customization is for the individual and rarely seen by others, whereas with myspace such customization was on a landing page that a lot of other people would see. It's also much less limited than the degree of awfulness you could inflict with myspace.