Comments on: Big Love for a Small Feature – ‘In reply to’ in Tweetie 2

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:42:38 +0000

In reply to iPhone4idiots. That one is very nicely implemented in Tweetie 2.

By: iPhone4idiots

iPhone4idiots — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:41:33 +0000

Nice feature, but my favorite is Nearby. I’ve used it at Titan’s games to tweet trash talk to other fans. I’ve used it at home to see what neighbors are tweeting as well. I really think this feature is gonna lead to some great games.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:07:53 +0000

In reply to Rxmxsh. Hawk pointed this out out to me about SimplyTweet in particular earlier on Twitter. Thing is, for me, the UI of some of those really feature-rich apps is not so strong - and I don't notice these clever features as much because of it.

By: Rxmxsh

Rxmxsh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:57:00 +0000

Are you aware this feature has been around in other apps such as simplytweet for a LONG time now?

By: secondman

secondman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:20:05 +0000

I have also found the "swipe the top bar to return to the timeline" feature in Tweetie 2 to be another great "little" touch. In fact, I find myself trying to use it in every other app, much to my chagrin…

By: donovanwatts

donovanwatts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:05:34 +0000

I love that feature too. My favorite is swiping a Tweet in Tweetie 2 in order to mark something as Favorite or to mark as 'Read Later' in Instapaper. Not that I ever read anything later though. 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:33:24 +0000

Yup, I do use the double-click in Tweetie for Mac, but for whatever reason I don't remember it's there as often as I do on the iPhone.

By: aflorence

aflorence — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:03:25 +0000

That's what I was gonna say… that sounds like the double click threaded conversation feature in Tweetie Mac

By: Josh Gard

Josh Gard — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:13:21 +0000

I agree, I've found this little button to be very useful and also long for it when I'm using other twitter apps. I've discovered in Tweetie for Mac that if you double-click a tweet, you can also see any previous conversation – that is if the person actually used the "reply" function.

I find a lot of people just start a new tweet and direct to someone, rather than actually using the reply button. These non-replies don't get connected to the thread so there's no way to follow along without wading back through. Also, people who use text messages to reply also don't seem to get threaded; they're treated as new messages.

Just little quirks, though it's more Twitter's side of things, that make the conversation view (in-reply-to) a little inconsistent sometimes. But when it works, it's great!