Twitter C/D

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."

right, it'll be there, but not instantaneously like it was before

which is what made it so valuable to me

New Twitter's been garbage for me on all browsers in all OSes. Always unacceptably slow, and half the time the page just doesn't appear at all. I presume all the focus is on APIs and mobile apps now.

guys complaining abt new twitter is so 6 months ago or whenever it was that they introduced it

well now we actually have to use it

Rank Client % of users Tweets/user
1 (1) web 31.99 % 3.93
2 (2) TweetDeck 16.07 % 5.14
3 (4) twhirl 6.85 % 3.73
4 (3) twitterfeed 6.09 % 2.81
5 (5) Tweetie 3.66 % 2.38
6 (13) TwitterBerry 3.50 % 2.20
7 (8) txt 2.89 % 1.63
8 (6) twitterrific 2.59 % 1.79
9 (11) TwitterFox 2.51 % 2.79
10 (10) TwitPic 1.98 % 1.42
11 (7) mobile web 1.90 % 2.04
12 (12) Ping.fm 1.68 % 1.27
13 (9) TwitterFon 1.68 % 5.45
14 (14) FriendFeed 1.68 % 3.59
15 (15) Power Twitter 1.52 % 2.55
16 (16) Brightkite 1.14 % 2.07
17 (22) HootSuite 0.53 % 2.00
18 (26) twitthat 0.46 % 1.17
19 (30) DestroyTwitter 0.46 % 2.83
20 (24) Twittelator 0.38 % 3.80
21 (21) m.slandr.net 0.38 % 2.60

lol friendfeed rip

xp omg. Twitter, get yer act together.

fwiw for the curious

destroy twitter is good and really minimal

tweetdeck is good if you've got a lot of things you want to monitor via hashtags or if you're doing more than one account for some reason

hootsuite is ugly and overrated but fine enough

twitterrific & twirhl are too slow

Twitter, get yer act together.

― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, August 5, 2011 4:06 AM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

what do you mean by this?

hoos idk if you're on a mac or not but if you are have you tried the official twitter mac desktop client and if so is it worth anything

I mean if 31.99% of users use the web site then Twitter is failing to provide a solid service to 31.99% of its users. But then again that list includes "TwitterFon" and "Tweetie" so