Twitter for iPhone updated, QuickBar is dead
The Twitter for iPhone app has been updated (again), and this time the company has included the change everyone's been waiting for: the QuickBar, which featured trending terms along with some paid placement phrases, has been removed from the app. Twitter deftly sidesteps the actual reason why the bar was removed, but their reasoning basically lands on the idea that the bar didn't "improve the user experience" or serve the mission of connecting people to trends on the service. Whatever the reasons, the QuickBar is gone, despite what Twitter says are "incredibly high usage metrics," so the voice of the crowd wins this round.
Twitter says it will continue to experiment boldly, however, so it's unlikely that the trending topics are going to be gone for good. Still, after all of the fervor around this particular feature, it is nice to see that the company is taking public outcry into consideration. Those against the QuickBar (who gave it all of its silly monikers) will be happy to hear about the update.
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Really? There were people who hated it?
Trending topics are pretty useful for seeing at a glance if anything big has happened. I regularly used the quickbar. Why not a toggle?
Funny. I Finally relented and updated the app just yesterday. Hated it and spent a fair amount of time finding a replacement Twitter app.
If only I had waited one more day.
Seeya, #dickbar.
Except that Jackie Chan DIDN'T DIE.
Twitter's trending topics are unreliable junk.
I didn't mind the bar too much.. At first I hated it since when you went to your time line it would always show even when you weren't at the top. You would have to scroll all the way to the top then back down to hide it.
The 2nd update fixed that so it only showed when you were at the top.
They should have just disabled it but added an option to turn it back on.
While I didn't use it often but occasionally I would notice a trending topic that interested me. I mean without the bar I would have never known Jackie Chan died!
Since trending topics is a totally useless feature, anything that accesses them or brings them prominence is, at best, also totally useless. If it does so by taking screen space or distracting you it is less than useless.
I don’t know what planet the people defending the #dickbar and trending topics are from.
Unfortunately, they are from Earth and Twitter will find another way to feed them pablum.
March 31 2011 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBut Charlie Sheen's exploits and Jackie Chan's incorrectly reported death are soooooo important.
March 31 2011 at 9:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI still won't use this app because they still do the automatic "t.co" link shortening. Give me the option to shorten my links or not & I'll go back, but for now, I'll go back to using Tweetlogix.
I honestly didn't mind the dickbar as much as everyone else. My biggest problem with the 3.3 update was that the app became buggy as hell, and frequently locked up on start up. I also kept having PMs get marked as unread (I've "read" the same messages at least two dozen times now).
They could have kept the dickbar and axed the bugs and I would have been happy.
I also found the quick bar useful when you have a few minutes to kill.
they could have made it an on/off switch in settings, IMHO
Finally. That thing was annoying.
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