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Prolific Dyslexic — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:59:13 -0000

seems to be solved now.

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James Fuller — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:38:02 -0000

Because the right button doesn't work in most of them to highlight. If you're off by a little bit you end up hitting the link when you go to highlight. And I'm quite comfortable with my clients it's just the cramped nature of the boxes with 3-4 links, an avatar, and <140 in a 3 sq. in. rectangle.

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Craig Law — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:37:50 -0000

That's ridiculous. You can do it...press the right button :)

Like the rest of Twitter, I think there's a bit of 'discovery' that comes along with the client link. I've learned about a new client from seeing that - why would you want to remove that just because you can't hit the right button?

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James Fuller — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:27:05 -0000

I don't know it might possibly just be due to the fact I highlight them as I read and clicking on the back of the tweet causes the misclick. So I doubt many other people would get that. Also, thought about Tweetstats and I do miss that so now I do want that to come back. It's far more valuable than me being bothered by a few webpages a day.

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Louis Gray — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:25:00 -0000

321, I posted on it last night at the above link. Yes, it's been almost 24 hours now.

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321 — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:22:00 -0000

This has been going on since at least last night (that is when I noticed it) you would think that they would have fixed it by now.

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Jesse Stay — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:45:00 -0000

Ken I wish I weren't :) 'Tis the life of a startup - does this mean Twitter is not a startup any more?

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Ken Sheppardson — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:44:00 -0000

Well that part's understandable, Jesse. It's the weekend after all. Who works on weekends?

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Jesse Stay — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:43:00 -0000

Ken could be - awfully disappointing it's been almost a day with no response from the Twitter team on the mailing list.

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Ken Sheppardson — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:42:00 -0000

So you're suggesting this is just a Bus Test failure, Jesse? I guess that'd be oddly reassuring.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/latest-twitter-bug-hides-use-of-third.html

Micah Wittman — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:41:00 -0000

Jesse, don't blame the player, blame the game :)

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dacort — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:40:28 -0000

Just had a random (completely unsubstantiated) thought - I wonder if the source thing is related to the "best video" issue they had yesterday?

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Jesse Stay — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:40:00 -0000

Because Alex is living it up in Maui without any internet

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Ari Herzog — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:25:31 -0000

Wow. I routinely checked the client notation to see what other people were using, especially so-called celebrities. Some always used the web, while others used mobile clients. Puts a shift in things.

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dacort — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:03:52 -0000

TweetStats does track this, it's just not exposed publicly at the moment. ;)

If you'll look, though, the web certainly does have 100% of updates for today. http://tweetstats.com/twitt...

Makes me ponder what would happen if Twitter removed this feature completely.

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Louis Gray — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:59:32 -0000

I don't think I've made the mistake of clicking on the client instead of a valid URL before. I wonder if others are making the same misclick you are?

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Louis Gray — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:58:32 -0000

I was thinking about how the latest bug impacted TweetStats. Somebody's got to track how apps are winning and losing in competition, and this makes it appear that Web has 100% market share.

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Mike Nencetti — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:31:00 -0000

hmmm.. Twitter has bugs, compromised accounts, FaceBook hardly loads anymore (its even slower than Twitter). I suppose for now I'll just hang out on FF.

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Jeff Cutler — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:27:26 -0000

Worst of all, it's a fail in transparency because if you're using Tweetlater or some other way to post when you're not really there, it's misleading.

Hope it's fixed soon.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/latest-twitter-bug-hides-use-of-third.html

dacort — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:23:33 -0000

It's also going to mess up TweetStats... ;) Hopefully it doesn't last too long.

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Brandon Mendelson — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:01:00 -0000

I agree with Kim. Not to mention, Friendfeed (as far as I can tell anyway) hides what services and how someone updates too. So perhaps this is a move on Twitter's end to streamline things?

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/latest-twitter-bug-hides-use-of-third.html

Kim Landwehr — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:47:00 -0000

As an end user this is not so important, but if I was a creator of one of these apps, I would not be happy.

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Chris Charabaruk — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:21:24 -0000

I wonder how Twitter will fail next?

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James Fuller — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:05:43 -0000

This is definitely a feature for me. I always seem to click on the client title when using clients which ends up sending me to Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, or Twhirl's website asking me to download them. I'm sick of it and don't want to see this come back. It becomes a major nuisance when you do it several dozen times a day.

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Guest — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:04:50 -0000

Bug or new "feature"?