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> Twitter UI is too clunky for what it does. No progress since 7 years I'm using it. This. A million times this. I don't understand Twitter. I don't get what t

> Twitter UI is too clunky for what it does. No progress since 7 years I'm using it. This. A million times this. I don't understand Twitter. I don't get what the hell they're thinking of, when they release (for example) the horrific design that is the Twitter desktop and Mobile apps. An incredibly common use case is to have more than one twitter account and switch between them. Go try it. A bunch of people brought out superior apps, and Twitter just killed them. If this is representative of the thinking going on at Twitter, they are (deservedly) doomed.

bjelkeman-again 12y ago
Tweetbot has a good implementation of multiple accounts. Both on the Mac and iPhone.
- comex 12y ago
  I use Tweetbot on both platforms, but I don't think its implementation is good. Good to me would be a merged feed with tweets and mentions from all accounts, analogous to what I can do with email, IRC, instant messaging, etc.; maybe not the best for opsec, but more convenient for casual purposes than having to constantly switch between accounts.
  - bjelkeman-again 12y ago
    Ah, different use cases. The way it works at the moment is what I was looking for, but I can see when it isn't suitable.
- Andrex 12y ago
  TweetDeck, which is owned by Twitter, handles it very well, too.
olefoo 12y ago
Twitter has what can be described as the organizational version of ADHD. They've had several changes of leadership and have had leaders who were primarily focused on other companies while guiding twitter. Jack Dorsey is an impressive person but do you think he could really give his full attention to Twitter while running Square? The churn at the top is the best explanation I can find for some of the policy reversals we've seen (3rd party clients in, out, in again maybe sort of) and the somewhat random approach to business strategy. Twitter's core audience is a very desirable demographic but not one that's really going to react to in-stream adds at all positively. But twitter doesn't do some of the clever things it could with the firehose; and certainly doesn't use it to create secondary products that would be useful enough that businesses would pay for them.

bjelkeman-again 12y ago

Tweetbot has a good implementation of multiple accounts. Both on the Mac and iPhone.

comex 12y ago
I use Tweetbot on both platforms, but I don't think its implementation is good. Good to me would be a merged feed with tweets and mentions from all accounts, analogous to what I can do with email, IRC, instant messaging, etc.; maybe not the best for opsec, but more convenient for casual purposes than having to constantly switch between accounts.
- bjelkeman-again 12y ago
  Ah, different use cases. The way it works at the moment is what I was looking for, but I can see when it isn't suitable.
Andrex 12y ago
TweetDeck, which is owned by Twitter, handles it very well, too.

olefoo 12y ago

Twitter has what can be described as the organizational version of ADHD. They've had several changes of leadership and have had leaders who were primarily focused on other companies while guiding twitter. Jack Dorsey is an impressive person but do you think he could really give his full attention to Twitter while running Square? The churn at the top is the best explanation I can find for some of the policy reversals we've seen (3rd party clients in, out, in again maybe sort of) and the somewhat random approach to business strategy. Twitter's core audience is a very desirable demographic but not one that's really going to react to in-stream adds at all positively. But twitter doesn't do some of the clever things it could with the firehose; and certainly doesn't use it to create secondary products that would be useful enough that businesses would pay for them.