The Twitter Topic | 280 Character Limit Being Tested

PostRe: The Twitter Topic | by **Jax** » Thu May 02, 2013 11:35 pm

No...why? WHHHHHHYYYY??

PostRe: The Twitter Topic | by **Floex** » Wed May 08, 2013 9:12 pm

Facebook now removed from Tweetdeck. Really only was a matter of time, wasn't it.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic | by **jiggles** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:37 pm

Twitter Sig Update

You might have noticed that the twitter sigs haven't been updating for a while. They were on the old depreciated API, so none of the requests were going through and the only tweets that would show were whatever the last ones added to the cache on my server were.

I've updated the code to use the 1.1 API and everything should be back to working as normal. Sorry it took me so long to realise there was a problem. :oops:

PostRe: The Twitter Topic | by **Floex** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:44 pm

I was going to PM you about it but my last tweet before in went down, 'Please Understand', seemed to go well with a lot of my recent posts.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:01 pm

Well, to make up for it, I've changed it now so that it matches Twitter's styling better.

In other news, gd is a pain in the butt.

Spindash wrote:
https://twitter.com/AccidentalP wrote:Highlighting accidental Partridge on twitter.

This is a quality recommendation. Laugh out loud funny.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:29 pm

Goddammit, Taf. strawberry float you and your line breaks.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Tafdolphin** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:28 pm

Haha, noticed that. Get it sorted son.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:56 pm

Alright, the sigs now scale up if the tweet takes too many new lines. And now that I get four times as many API calls per hour than I did before, I've put the cache down from 10 minutes to 3 minutes.

I've also shrunk the text. I think it's too small now, but let me know what you think.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Floex** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:14 pm

The size is fine, perhaps a little small but now there is alot of unused real-estate between the tweet and the date.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:34 pm

Right, so looking at my own sig now, the three options are:

- make the font bigger to come closer to the edge of the image
- make the image less wide to bring the right edge closer to the text
- set it to take a new line after a larger number of characters (currently set to be the last complete word before 80)

The third option is the worst choice because the tweets will all become top-heavy. Can't decide between the other two.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **False** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:36 pm

Just make it less wide?

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:39 pm

Can you count how many pixels I need to shave off? I'm on a retina display, and it's all dicky about resolutions.

Edit: strawberry float it. I think 60 90 would be about right.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jamcc** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:40 pm

The new message bar on the iPhone Twitter app is dumb. :-|

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **BID0** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:24 am

jamcc wrote:The new message bar on the iPhone Twitter app is dumb.

Yes that addition feels a bit weird, especially as the reply button is still there and I still use that out of habbit.

At least they have finally fixed DM's! About time.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Floex** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:59 am

You should be using Tweetbot, fact.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Mafro** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:28 pm

Floex wrote:You should be using Tweetbot, fact.

By far the best Twitter client available on any platform.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **jiggles** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:46 pm

I still don't get what could make it better than the official client.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Mafro** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:53 pm

Quicker, easier access to lists (especially on iPhone), customisable tabs and the media-only timeline view. Plus it still has proper Instagram integration and the option to open links in Chrome.

PostRe: The Twitter Topic by **Floex** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:09 pm

jiggles wrote:I still don't get what could make it better than the official client.

Mafro wrote:Quicker, easier access to lists (especially on iPhone), customisable tabs and the media-only timeline view. Plus it still has proper Instagram integration and the option to open links in Chrome.

BOOYA

Plus it picks up from where you left off across your devices. The list function in the Twitter app is pathetic. Considering they now own Tweetdeck it boggles my mind the state it is in. One last thing, no adverts.

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