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Re:Twitter announces profile page changes by jonknee on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @11:01AM (#4538426)
The new iPad app is atrocious. I thought I somehow accidentally got the phone version somehow because it appeared so jumbled. It's better in portrait, but I normally use landscape and there is an incredible amount of unused space. I still haven't figured out how to switch to my other Twitter accounts, I just see one. The web view is now full screen so I can't read tweets and have a link open at the same time (handy with breaking news to read the story and then reactions).

tl;dr seems like a huge step back

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Re:Twitter announces profile page changes by srj55 on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @11:45AM (#4538704)
Agree. I also use the iPad in landscape and this app is definitely a big step back.

So much wasted/unused space.

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Re:Twitter announces profile page changes by jonknee on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @12:50PM (#4539112)
It's like they didn't consider landscape at all. Rotating simply adds margins to the side of the main UITableView. Baffling. But after they made a power play to ensure they don't have competition in the Twitter app space, it's infuriating.

In a very short time they have taken out 3rd party apps and made their own worse (for no apparent gain on their end, the new app doesn't appear to have more ads or anything).

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Re:Twitter announces profile page changes by mikerastiello on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @11:10AM (#4538481)
Hold on the "Me" icon to switch accounts. It took me a while to find that.
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Re:Twitter announces profile page changes by jonknee on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @11:33AM (#4538633)
Wow, that was unintuitive, but thanks for the tip. There's three inches of empty space available and I have to figure out to hold an icon to switch accounts. Not to mention I can no longer see the status of those other accounts (I await the push notification that I can't find because it's in another account somewhere).
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