Friday, 28 January 2011

Twitterage

I love Twitter, its just quite simply awesome.
Even more, I love Tweetdeck. I use it on my work PC, my iMac, my MacBook Pro and on my iPhone. Why do I use this client above and beyond anything else?
Simple, its because I *LIVE* in lists. I find it the only way to keep track of who is tweeting what. I have lists for friends, lists for news, technology, sport, work, location, celebrities. (I even have a list specifically for Joss Whedon-related celebs!). This is where TweetDeck comes into its own. It allows me to display every list I want in a separate column in one display and just scroll across the lists and scan down to see new tweets.

I'm currently facing a bit of a quandary. TweetDeck for the iPhone just isn't doing it for me any more. Sure, from the "viewing lists" point of view, its just as good as its desktop counterpart, but there are two distinct problems. Firstly, there seems to be no way to add people to a list after I start following them. I keep having to go back to the desktop or use Safari to log into Twitter via the web to do this. Secondly, and somewhat more irritatingly, its started crashing quite a lot. This seems to be a known bug, but not one that Tweetdeck seem to have looked to issue a fix for.

So I need one of two things to happen. Either a) Tweetdeck issue a new version with bug fixes and new features (and I have no idea if/when that is on the cards), or b) I have to find another Twitter client for the iPhone which handles lists on one screen as well as Tweetdeck.

So far all of the clients I've looked at have forced me to go through about three screens, just to be presented with a list of my lists, and with no way to see how many new posts I have within them without actually viewing each list individually.

So this is my cry for help - can someone, ANYONE (even TweetDeck) find a solution to my problem?

Internet, you have your orders. Make it so.

1 comment:

DunK said...

Just after posting this, I came across this forum posting - http://support.tweetdeck.com/entries/312683-brand-new-ios-app-coming-soon. So the question now becomes - do I hang in there, or is there something better?