Twitter C/D

problem solved.

it was good tweeting w/ u wahooow

Works on work computer. Still HATES it, tho.

Guess this means I have to upgrade Safari, which is just such a pain in the arse because my internet connection is so slow and the apple downloads always take ~forever~

Is a private account actually safe from the internet's prying eyes?

Only if you use https all the time.

I think the perhaps sad truth is that one shouldn't say anything on the internet (however apparently anonymously) that one wouldn't want the world to potentially know.

I used to use Twitterfox/Echofon all the time but the new version is so awful it sent me back to using the Twitter homepage, which has always felt like a ridiculously clunky way to use Twitter.

x-post depends what you are concerned about.

If it's "I don't want my wife/parents/boss to read this!!!" then quite frankly, twitter's security isn't what you need to be worried about, but leaving your browser open or computer unlocked is a much bigger worry.

If it's more "will twittercorp roll over and sell my DMs on to advertisers, data aggregators, or the police" then the answer is of *course* they will, and nothing you put on there is ever private.

It's the former. I'm too minutely solipsistic to be concerned with the latter.

Private accounts are secure and Google-proof, but it would be a bad idea to authorise any third-party apps to access them. Also, any @replies to private accounts are fully visible, and you can't stop people RT-ing. That said, a friend of mine with quite a high public profile has maintained a VERY private account for the past 5 years, with a tiny and trustworthy list of followers, without encountering any privacy problems.

oh so twitter's finally forced the switch to new twitter and guess what it doesn't work for me any more, just doesn't load at all in camino

why do social networks have to fuck me around so much? STOP CHANGING IT WAS FINE AS IT WAS

why do social networks have to fuck me around so much? STOP CHANGING IT WAS FINE AS IT WAS

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 4, 2011 6:34 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

http://tds.ic.polyu.edu.hk/td/theme1/image/iterate.jpg

wait

what a terrible graphic

i'm just sayin they love the word "iterate" down in silicon valley these days

i have so much hate in me right now

like is a change not supposed to IMPROVE a service rather than make it CEASE WORKING? i fucking hate everyone responsible for this and want them to have their heads kicked in NOW

That's going to be the album cover for my new band, Design Problem.

lol

3-disc set: Iteration; Information; Interaction.

lol @ this

like is a change not supposed to IMPROVE a service rather than make it CEASE WORKING? i fucking hate everyone responsible for this and want them to have their heads kicked in NOW

no no, lol @ THIS

well can someone tell me how to make it work again then?

download a dedicated twitter client like twitterific, twitter, or tweetdeck or use another browser like safari or chrome

i'd say the above too, but fwiw what version of camino you on?

camino version 2.0.7

i would use chrome, everyone tells me this and i liked it when i was able to briefly use it, but it's not compatible with mac 10.4. firefox is stupidly heavy and enrages me constantly

when i used firefox, i used the echofon plug-in for twitter, which i liked - i want something that works within the browser, not a separate application, tried tweetdeck and couldn't get with it at all. echofon is not compatible with mac 10.4 or camino

bloody fucking obstacles at every turn

if there's any echofon-like in-browser thing that works with camino do tell me!

@umairh
I could go on all day, but I'll shut up now. If you're wondering "how did we get here?", try reading the last few tweets.

ughhhhhh

weird i'm digging here and nobody seems to be reporting any issues

in camino i mean

the top bar loads - with home, profile, messages etc - but the rest is just a blank grey screen, whether i try to go to the twitter home page or to any individual twitter page

lex: be like this other awesome lex and use the Opera browser, I'm sure that's Mac compatible?

huh -- i just went and checked twitter, and i'm having the same issue as lex, on Windows 7/Opera. big gray screen with a header on top

oh so twitter's finally forced the switch to new twitter and guess what it doesn't work for me any more, just doesn't load at all in camino

why do social networks have to fuck me around so much? STOP CHANGING IT WAS FINE AS IT WAS

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 4, 2011 11:34 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

this. i'm using chrome for windows 7. will opera make the pretty tweets come back?

xp with reddening, i guess that answers that!

if you're on a mac, use safari -- sorry to be real, but lol if you're using something else, unless it's chrome i guess

i still recommend opera however, og mouse gestures 4 lyfe

also, i have no idea wtf was so wrong with old twitter that necessitated this change? i mean...it was fine. completely fine. no complaints at all. this? this is NOT FINE.

safari isn't as heavy as firefox but it's still too heavy

safari rules

also i'm sick of having to switch browsers constantly because nothing is compatible with anything else

I'm on lolXP with Opera and it loads fine; but also loads fine on Win 7 & Opera at home, so.. I haven't switched from Opera since 2001, rarely have problems.. when I do I just disable style sheets and pick out what I need.

xp to reddening mouse gesture high five! I think that's two double-clicks.

never before have i missed google's realtime search feature so much

big gray screen with a header on top

― a dry, airless meringue (reddening), Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:23 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

come to think of it, i remember this happening to me for a couple of days back in march while i was using chrome on XP

yeah where did the google realtime search go anyway? i'd just got used to having that option

i had to load IE yesterday because a low-budget college website's information system wouldn't support my browser. the experience was very late '90s. (xxxp with the post about browser incompatibility)

i'm using chrome for windows 7. will opera make the pretty tweets come back?

― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is interesting--it works fine in chrome on xp

my friend joe tells me it loads fine on his machine running chrome on w7

they could be trying a "rolling blackout" approach.

maybe the problem's only happening for people who got forcibly upgraded to new twitter? i had switched back to the old version because the performance was better

never before have i missed google's realtime search feature so much

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:30 PM (5 minutes ago)

yeah where did the google realtime search go anyway? i'd just got used to having that option

― lex pretend, Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:32 PM (3 minutes ago)

"Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2.
While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google.
Our vision is to have google.com/realtime include Google+ information along with other realtime data from a variety of sources."