Twitter’s Most Annoying Feature

by Sam on October 18, 2007

Great win by the sox tonight — Beckett was unstoppable! We’ll see if Curt can revive his post-season form of old on Saturday…

On to Twitter. I like it, but I don’t love it…at least yet. I suppose I’m  still awaiting that “aha” moment and hopefully it will come soon. More than any other social network I am a part of, I think having fellow users whom I know and interact with ‘offline’ would make Twitter much more compelling. So if I know you, please add me (squasher98)
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Regardless, the one feature of Twitter that continues to annoy me is the arrangement of chronological tweets. Maybe I’m just a different breed, but shouldn’t older posts be to the left? When I think right, I think ‘recent’ because that’s how you read, from left (old) to right (new). Also, shouldn’t RSS feed be at the top of the page?

Am I way off base?

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  • I agree on the RSS; disagree on the Newer/Older.

    Think of it as paging through results. The usual UI is to have the "next" page of results (in this case, older tweets) be on the right side.

    In Twitter's case, I think that is more relevant than the metaphor of a left-to-right chronology.

    But yeah -- that trips me up on Twitter, del.icio.us and other sites where paging *forward* through results means going *back* in time.
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