Twitter C/D

scrolled too quickly down that list and thought i saw a client called TwitterFuc

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Part 2: A list that contains product names that were changed a billion years ago is probably out of date.

yah i shoulda sourced the list, its from a techcrunch article from the fall

Ah ok. Yeah it's not broken for me

this puts twitter.com use at 35%

http://www.scribbal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/twitter-client1.jpg

fyi the official mac app is an updated version of tweetie iirc -- they purchased tweetie a while back

yeah i'm wondering how long til they start integrating tweetdeck functions since they bought them recently

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.

do twitter.com users use m.twitter.com on their phones then?

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

i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power users

i've never used tweetdeck before but my understanding is that it's suited to power users
That's what I don't get. It's inordinately popular for a power-user app.

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

notice in that admittedly dated table i posted that tweetdeck has, within a tenth of a percent, the highest ratio of tweets to users

tweets per persona?

idk

v good point xxp

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.

wow do i sound like a blowhard

night guyz

later

Why would you say the same thing from multiple what I dont even.

(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?

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

i usually don't open tweetdeck once i get home because it feels like work

lol my man hoos, w/ a parody account for... a DC inside joke. texas seems so long ago.

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

i like this thread when it links to funny twitter accounts.

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.

Who does the Hulk music reviews on Twitter? I fucking love those.

whiney does them I thought?

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

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

someone should code a twitter client based on the quake engine

i've just tried @tweetalondoncab .. no response yet tho

The great thing about Twitter is that you can basically thread the content through your browser or phone or whatever else you're doing at the time - kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website.

i'm fairly new to it and i go through the website. work won't let me install programs to my computer, so is there another way of integrating it?

you can basically thread the content through your browser [...] kind of baffled that anyone would want to actually go to the website

does not compute... not a heavyweight twitterer tho

he means you can download an app that sits in your browser toolbar, or an app that sits in your computer's menubar, or an app that lives on your phone, that's always updating and always available and designed just for tweets, rather than being a webpage in a browser

you can basically thread the content through your browser

not if your browser is camino and you have mac 10.4

comedy accounts are the worst fucking things, music hulk certainly included in that (as though the smug received wisdom of @discographies wasn't bad enough). actual professional comedians should obviously be put to death.

the funniest people on twitter for me by far are my friends alix and pip - they never make ~jokes~ as such but their tone and style is such that i'd read them tweeting about any old mundane shit (which is often exactly what they do)

i love twitter but the worst thing about it is def when everyone seems to be trying to out-funny each other. STOP TRYING TO BE FUNNY NONE OF YOU CAN MANAGE IT.

(obviously there are exceptions but seriously they're so rare that it's better to assume you're not one of them)

alix and pip

I use Twitter for work reasons more and more, it's great for entertainment/music stories.

Generally I find personal accounts to be sort of odd, people saying v inane things and saying a lot more than they would on say, Facebook, where people post frivolous shit but at least it's one or two a day, or whatever. Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?

i have two friends whose tweets are like 50% or more about commuting

one of them is funny

alix and pip

― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 5 August 2011 10:36 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i understand the point of this post way less than any inane shit on twitter. you repeated the names of my friends, i don't get it

They are kind of cool names, to be fair.

brodie

Also I don't really get people arranging social events and stuff on Twitter, why would you want to do this publicly and with a character limit instead of via email?

it can be pretty useful when you're feeling vague - like, who's around in the area and wants to hang NOW - or specific about what you want to do but unsure exactly who you want to do it with. a nice way to end up hanging out with people who aren't necessarily the ones you hang out with all the time, kind of "improving" certain friendships

most people i follow on Twitter I don't know IRL, which is the difference between Twitter and FB. More likely to organise social events on FB.