{"id":4523,"date":"2010-09-03T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2010-09-03T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T07:17:49","slug":"twitter-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=4523","title":{"rendered":"Twitter for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played a bit with the <a title=\"Twitter for iPad | iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/twitter\/id333903271?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter for iPad<\/a> app (announced recently on the <a title=\"Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets | Twitter blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2010\/09\/twitter-for-ipad-sharing-content-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter blog<\/a>), and found it a pleasant experience for casual use, but not particularly well-suited for more intensive use that involves multi-tasking. The slide-over pane organization is elegant and more usable than TweetDeck for iPad&#8217;s browser. It works particularly well for reading web pages in portrait mode: pages can be zoomed to hide the ads and show just the main column in a reasonably-sized font.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ironically, the multiple overlapping panes that are so appealing in this design echo windows of desktop user interfaces, something that most apps have avoided to date.<\/p>\n<p>The tool also includes a search interface, but I could not find a way to save searches persistently. One of the main uses of search for me is to follow conference-related tweets, and it&#8217;s nice to keep those around for longer than Twitter&#8217;s ever-shrinking search window permits. With the current limit of something like 4 or 5 days, early tweets from a major conference will not be accessible by the conference&#8217;s end. Thus it&#8217;s useful to have clients (such as TweetDeck) that can cache search results and supplement them with new tweets.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it&#8217;s nice to see the iPad application user interface evolve to incorporate new styles of information presentation; I hope these kinds of interactions will make it into other applications. On the other hand, I am not giving up on other Twitter apps yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played a bit with the Twitter for iPad app (announced recently on the Twitter blog), and found it a pleasant experience for casual use, but not particularly well-suited for more intensive use that involves multi-tasking. The slide-over pane organization is elegant and more usable than TweetDeck for iPad&#8217;s browser. It works particularly well for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[191,82],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions\/4525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}