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Screenshots of Twitter's internal admin interface
- mmb 17y agoCan't these by easily unblurred to reveal Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher's email addresses?
- jskopek 17y agoUnlikely, but it would be a cinch to determine the number of letters in the address; do a little creative guessing with that value and you could probably find it. Of course, having an interesting conversation with them would likely be a little harder ;)
- maukdaddy 17y agoThe addresses are likely for their publicists.
- mmb 17y agoPossible but I'd be surprised if Ashton Kutcher's publicist was using an aol.com email address.
- ashleyw 17y agoIt can, not easily though, I think you've been watching too much CSI... :P
- jacobolus 17y agoTry googling "deconvolution". This appears to just be a gaussian blur, so it should be trivial.
- Timothee 17y agoI'm surprised by how basic it looks. They clearly put the features they needed and didn't go further.
- henning 17y agoI guess it's a question of priorities: work on something 15 people use, or something 15 million people will use? :)
- Timothee 17y agoOh yeah, absolutely. It's just that it seems that half an hour of CSS would make it cleaner and I'm surprised that nobody at Twitter finished something on a Friday afternoon and thought "ok, let me clean this up a little bit" instead of starting something else :)
- vaksel 17y agoJudging by Twitter's uptime record in the past, they probably have had an experience where someone thought that, started coding, and crashed the whole site.
- benreesman 17y agoI like making fun of Twitter as much as the next guy, although in all fairness when I saw this graph I decided to give them a little more credit. They're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. I can't claim to have handled that kind of scaling, let alone handled it without a hitch. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com http://alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com (make sure to set the timeframe to 'max' to see what i'm talking about)
- moe 17y agoThey're facing ongoing, unbounded growth. ...on an app that consists of a solved problem (pub/sub). Cry me a river. Or better yet, give me a million dollars and I'll build you a twitter that doesn't fail. In 60 days. You'll just have to bring the users.
- vaksel 17y agoMost admin panels look like that, there is no point wasting valuable time building something "pretty" that noone will ever see.
- maukdaddy 17y agoWow...According to these screenshots Britney Spears has more followers than Obama.
- harpastum 17y agoNot just according to those screenshots. A quick twitter search shows Britney has 1.25M [1] and Barack has just over 1M [2]. [1]http://twitter.com/britneyspears http://twitter.com/britneyspears [2]https://twitter.com/BarackObama https://twitter.com/BarackObama
- maukdaddy 17y agoHA! Good point =)
- Tichy 17y agoI think Obama stopped using Twitter before the "recommended people" shock happened that multiplied some people's follower counts by 100.
- tvon 17y agoI will never, ever understand people who have large displays but still run fully maximized browser windows. It seems a bit half-assed to run these images uncropped... not like they couldn't provide links to the originals. (a bit OT and negative, but seriously folks...)
- jonursenbach 17y agoWhat's wrong with running your browser fully maximized? I, personally, cannot stand having a half-screen browser open. Feels like I'm wasting space.
- silentbicycle 17y agoEvery single screenshot there has the content padded by about a meter and a half of empty background, though. Many, many websites have stylesheets that do that by default. The same space would fit a separate browser window with the same amount of content (or an editor, etc.). Also, many people find text that wraps at roughly 70-80 columns or less easier to read than longer lines. (This is probably why the stylesheets set the column width.) I used to do everything in fully maximized windows (I was using ratpoison (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) at the time), but it seemed to make less and less sense as monitors got larger. A widescreen 22+ inch monitor is practically two page-sized screens side by side.
- diego 17y agoI'm the opposite. I like text to not wrap unless possible. I hate having to scroll down because someone decided to have seven words per line.
- silentbicycle 17y agoMaybe once tiled window managers (something like dwm, xmonad, awesome, wmii) become less obscure?
- potatolicious 17y ago
- adrianwaj 17y agoI really enjoyed these screenshots, and learned more about Twitter in 5 minutes than by reading 10 Techcrunch posts about Twitter combined. It could make an interesting site even, backendwatch.com (or something else more palatable)
- scorpion032 17y agoYou do seem to read a lot of TechCrunch then ;)
- adrianwaj 17y agoIt's in my reader, the headlines are good but that's about it.
- dawie 17y agoI wonder if someone is going to get in trouble for leaking these...
- zzzmarcus 17y agoFrom the first sentence of the article: "hackers sent them screenshots"
- igorgue 17y agoPoor PerezHilton every celeb blocks him :( I guess to make his work harder
- ivankirigin 17y agoI'm sure he just uses another "following account"
- vito 17y ago"Impersonated by admin." Ah, good ol' Darth Vader complex.