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
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, August 5, 2011 4:08 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
you say that like all 32% are having trouble with the new client--that doesn't seem to be the case across the web or even in this thread.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
there is some weirdness -- i just uploaded an avatar and now i'm watching as it appears next to some of my old tweets but not others, although it seems to be appearing next to more of them than it was earlier, so
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
probably a database thing
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, what kinda fuckin weirdos were still using old twitter
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 August 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com users, apparently
― ice cr?m, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― markers, Friday, August 5, 2011 4:08 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark
not on a mac but i've heard it's dope
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
*nods* i might try it out at some point
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Somewhat mystified that folks are using the twitter web site where there are so many better client substitutes.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 August 2011 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah idk i just tend to use the web interface for most web things -- like, i don't use mail.app, i just log into gmail.com
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
YoruFukurou for OS X is packed with win.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
okay twitter is loading for me again.
i really don't see why i should have to mess with a separate twitter client, all i want to do is load a page and see a reverse chronological list of stuff the community cast has said recently.
― a dry, airless meringue (reddening), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
had no idea so many ppl accessed twitter via the website
official twitter for mac is the best, most lightweight dedicated client I think
― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't have the ~power user features~ of something like tweetdeck but otoh doesn't have the bloat either
― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Somewhat mystified that folks are using the twitter web site where there are so many better client substitutes.― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, August 5, 2011 12:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, August 5, 2011 12:44 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ive tried Tweetdeck and Tweetie and neither of them make as much sense as just going to the website to me \o_o/
Might try that official app tho
― froster the poophole (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yah the elephant in the room here, i think, is that i'm the tweetingest asshole in the room
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, August 5, 2011 2:08 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
I don't get this
― badg, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:25 (thirteen years ago) link
scrolled too quickly down that list and thought i saw a client called TwitterFuc
― a dry, airless meringue (reddening), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
badg
Part 1: If 32% of all users use the web site and it's broken (apparently not the case) then suck.
Part 2: A list that contains product names that were changed a billion years ago is probably out of date.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i shoulda sourced the list, its from a techcrunch article from the fall
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah ok. Yeah it's not broken for me
― badg, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this puts twitter.com use at 35%
http://www.scribbal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitter-client1.jpg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi the official mac app is an updated version of tweetie iirc -- they purchased tweetie a while back
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm wondering how long til they start integrating tweetdeck functions since they bought them recently
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd love to know why the site keeps fucking up for me then.
btw the popularity of TweetDeck continues to elude me, being probably the most cluttered Twitter app I've ever used. It's like the Bloomberg of social networking.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
do twitter.com users use m.twitter.com on their phones then?
― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
If you use m.twitter.com on an iphone you get a banner directing you to the app store. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in the wild (with an iphone) use m.twitter.com
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power users
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power usersThat's what I don't get. It's inordinately popular for a power-user app.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
agh formatting
It's inordinately popular for a power-user app.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, August 5, 2011 6:40 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
keep in mind how many people use twitter for marketing, and how well-suited to that task tweetdeck is
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
notice in that admittedly dated table i posted that tweetdeck has, within a tenth of a percent, the highest ratio of tweets to users
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link
tweets per persona?
idk
v good point xxp
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i imagine part of td's high ratio of tweets:users comes from the user broadcasting from multiple accounts--i use 4 regularly, for instance.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
wow do i sound like a blowhard
night guyz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:50 (thirteen years ago) link
later
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Why would you say the same thing from multiple what I dont even.
― Rameses Street (Trayce), Friday, 5 August 2011 06:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(kids these days)
twitter web page seems to work for me now. i did try new twitter a while ago when it was optional but switched back in about an hour b/c i couldn't get with it. i still don't get why it had to change at all.
most external twitter clients are separate applications, i don't want to do that. doesn't running loads of programmes hog memory anyway?
― lex pretend, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i have my personal acct, a dc-inside-joke parody acct (that i hate myself for having), and two accounts i run on behalf of organizations. also keep up w/my cofounder's feed while he's away & usually have a column for some conference or hashtag that's holding my interest for the moment
xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i usually don't open tweetdeck once i get home because it feels like work
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
lol my man hoos, w/ a parody account for... a DC inside joke. texas seems so long ago.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 August 2011 07:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i started a twitter account for an organization i was a part of in college, but besides that i've just had personal accounts iirc
― markers, Friday, 5 August 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this thread when it links to funny twitter accounts.
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Have to say @johnprescott is bringing it on Twitter on the regular; today's hashtag is #wheresthegovernment because the fuckers are all on expensive holidays while meltdown's afoot.
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Who does the Hulk music reviews on Twitter? I fucking love those.
― Why'd You Wanna Tweet Me So Bad? (dog latin), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link
whiney does them I thought?
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Until recently I only really followed personal accounts as it was a useful real-time tool for keeping up with exactly what is happening, but its usefulness in that way has become severely hampered due to huge levels of overtweeting inanity from certain friends which has become increasingly irritating
I fixed the problem of people retweeting comedians but the obvious solution of 'lists' I can't really see how to apply to this problem
― lake, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like the new twitter interface would be a huge improvement if it weren't slow - like, you can actually SEE the shape of a conversation, plus images and videos (otoh i would rather just never watch videos)
i don't really understand computer performance these days though. this from 'destroy twitter', the lightweight option:
DestroyTwitter packs in a ton of features while leaving an unbelievably small footprint. How does memory usage as low as 25mb sound?
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE USING ENOUGH MEMORY TO RUN THREE SEPARATE GAMES OF QUAKE TO LOAD A BUNCH OF 140-CHARACTER TEXT MESSAGES, WHEN DID WE ALL AGREE THIS WAS OKAY
― thomp, Friday, 5 August 2011 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should code a twitter client based on the quake engine
― nh (cozen), Friday, 5 August 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link