Waiting new Twitter for Mac

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:23:00 +0100

Last time I expressed my satisfaction with the new official Twitter for iPhone, but it must be said that also the new site design is excellent.

So waiting for a Twitter for Mac update, I made a “minimal desktop version” using fluid.

These are the userstyle I used:


body
{
	width: 522px !important;
}
.dashboard
{
	display: none !important;
}
.container
{
	width: 550px !important;
}
#page-container
{
	width: 522px !important;
}
.search-icon
{
	display: none !important;
}
.search-input
{
	width: 70px !important;
}
.flex-table-input
{
	width: 95% !important;
	margin-left: 10px !important;
}

While if you want show the number of new unread tweets on dock badge you can use this userscript:


(function () {
    if(window.fluid) {
        updateBadge();
        var intervalID = window.setInterval(updateBadge,1000);
    }
})();

function updateBadge() {
	if (document.getElementsByClassName("new-tweets-bar").length > 0) {
    		var numberOfUnread = document.getElementsByClassName("new-tweets-bar")[0].innerText.match(/\d+/);
    		if (numberOfUnread && numberOfUnread[0] > 0) {
        		window.fluid.dockBadge = numberOfUnread[0];
    		} else {
        		window.fluid.dockBadge = "";
    		}
	} else {
		window.fluid.dockBadge = "";
	}
}

Twitter 4.0

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:07:00 +0100

John Gruber on the Twitter 4.0 iPhone App:

The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character posts, you follow those people whose tweets you tend to enjoy, and that’s it. The Twitter service this new UI presents is about a whole lot more — mass-market spoonfed “trending topics” and sponsored content. It’s trying to make Twitter work for people who don’t see the appeal of what Twitter was supposed to be.

To be honest I never liked the iPhone official Twitter app and I have always preferred Tweetbot.But with the release of version 4.0 I have to admit that Twitter’s engineers have done a great job.

Now the app seems to be much more intuitive and elegant. Very interesting new features such as the one to see other information such as retweets and responses ineach tweet.
Unfortunately, there are still some important gaps, such as lack support for instagram,youtube or flickr services, as introduced in the new web version of Twitter.

I am sure we will see these improvements soon, and hope to see soon a new version of Twitter for Mac.
For now, I am satisfied and I can definitely drop Tweetbot.

Fabio Ciotoli

Waiting new Twitter for Mac

Twitter 4.0