Along the way, Twitter began to groom the app to fit with their vision. This resulted in the culling of a few features – Twitlonger support and Twitter location browsing. Twitter had experimented with advertising in the application, which eventually was dubbed the “dickbar.” Users were outraged at the addition of this bar, which contained trending topics and ads. The bar itself was pretty obtrusive and popped over top of tweets while you were reading – effectively disrupting the experience.

Twitter eventually saw the light and removed the Quickbar/Dickbar from the app, and the users were satisfied with the app once again.

Twitter released an update today, drastically changing the UI. There wasn’t much that remained the same.

My complaints with the new UI are as follows:

• Wasted space – there’s a lot of horizontal space wasted by chrome of the app, which then causes you to lose vertical space due to text-wrapping.
• No swipe gestures – prior to 4.0, a user could swipe left or right on a given tweet to bring up controls to favorite, reply, or retweet. Those are gone in 4.0.
• Inconsistent search – There’s no search bar on the main view, the connect view allows you to search for a given user but not tweets.
• Account switching buried – You now have to go to “Me” and then “Switch accounts”
• Direct messages buried under “Me”, just like account switching.

David Daniels and Nicole Young take the group shot for the photowalk.

Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of joining the Photowalking Utah group to partake in the last Photowalking Utah event that Nicole Young would be leading before she moves to the wonderful rainy city of Seattle. We started off walking the same area where Nicole had led her first Salt Lake City (WorldWide Photowalk) photowalk, as a tribute to her all too short yet wonderful time in Salt Lake City. I wish Nicole well in her endeavours in Seattle, though I’m certain the Salt Lake City photography community will miss her great leadership, experience, and fun personality on events such as these. I also hope Nicole will come visit every now and again – and maybe even come back after she realizes what awesomeness she’s missing.

Here are a few shots from the photowalk. I also shot a pretty good amount of video, so expect to see another update on this photowalk soon.

Jeremy prior to realizing you need to remove the lenscap to take photos.

Rich Legg relaxing during the end of the photowalk.

David Daniel

Jeremy Hall photographs the sunset

I love my wide-aperture lenses. This was with my Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8.

Thanks for letting me know. Such a great use of taxpayer money.

I can’t say I even know a reason why this would be put up, aside from the slight chance of a liability for injury. It doesn’t even have braille!

A view of downtown Salt Lake City from Ensign Peak in June of 2009 on my old, trusty Nikon D50. Dug up from my archives while looking for another photo.