This is a real quick and dirty post. I love twitter and wanted to quickly share my thoughts on the Twitter application, its beauty, reliability and performance. Note: This isn’t a Dig on third party apps, just an honest opinion to my approach.
You might be thinking why would you want to make it harder on yourself? Wouldn’t it be easier to RT people you have grouped and how do you remember all your cool friends? Well that all depends on perspective and I’d like to share my strategy with you guys in a follow up post.
1. Updated Follower UI Design Feature
Today Twitter updated its follower User Interface feature. My personal perspective is: (1) This feature is widely used and should stand out amongst the rest (apart from the updating!) (2) Twitter would like more people to come directly to their application, and they do but many people opt out and go for a third party app.
One thing i find remarkable about the engineers at twitter, is that they sure know how to keep things simple. I love that as I myself eschew complex approaches to simple solutions. I’ve seen so many sites with a toggle like feature (list to expanded), however twitters solution is pristine!
2. Performance and Reliability of the Twitter App:
Very simple concept here. The TRADITIONAL WEB is the most reliable and combined with AJAX its extremely powerful. I’ve used tweetdeck, I do admire the amazing app however it takes longer for the tweet to appear. With Twitter (the app itself) you hit the update button and 99/100 times it’ll get updated into the stream! Now thats impressive!
When i first started tweeting, I met a really cool Social media maven @doshdosh who brought this to my attention. Since then I haven’t looked back. Thanks Maki!!
3. Favorite Tweets
I read an article a while back stating that most users don’t favorite their tweets. It further stated that the one region that does favorite their tweets are the Japanese, and you gotta love their thought-process for that!! For some time now i have been adding all the cool tweets to my favorites, and think you should too. There have been so many times i have seen tweeters asking other tweeters to find that one tweet that they are desperately looking for. *So be clever, fave yours and others cool stuff for future reference.
All in all, my personal opinion highly favors that of the Traditional Twitter Application itself (even though i am a big lover of grids and columns). The engineers over at twitter sure have done a remarkable job with the application and i feel we should appreciate their work and effort.
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Good points, Ahad.
Imran
IMRAN.TV
Twitter is really best social networking and business promotion tool.
Twitter is used by millions of users because its features are unique.But some people don’t know its ethics.