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Looce started following the question "Why can a previously blocked user send me a new follower request?" in Twitter.

Looce replied on May 04, 2008 09:55 to the question "problems with the new icons/UI" in Twitter:

Maybe there *is* a problem with only some content. It would take a link to better understand where this occurs.

Looce marked one of motownmutt's replies in Twitter as useful. motownmutt replied to the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus".

Looce replied on May 03, 2008 10:47 to the question "How to add an image as background?" in Twitter:

http://twitter.com/account/profile_se...

At the top, select "Use my custom style below".

In the Background Image section, check "[X] Use background image" and select your image with the Browse button. Optionally specify that your image should repeat (tile) across the background. When satisfied, click Save at the bottom.

Looce replied on May 03, 2008 10:35 to the question "problems with the new icons/UI" in Twitter:

@ 1), it appears for me on page 2. Weird. (I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Ubuntu, 7.10, if that changes anything.)

@ 2) and 4), you're welcome :)

@ 3), indeed! Good eye.

And I woke up 1:30 hour ago actually. Timezones perhaps.

Looce replied on May 03, 2008 09:42 to the question "problems with the new icons/UI" in Twitter:

1) and 2) seem to be fixed as of this writing; I have the Older » button on http://twitter.com/home (is this what you meant?); and the "Protected updates" icon is now immediately to the right of a username in /home. As in, "Looce [^] Waking up, eating toast... 10 minutes ago from web" instead of the "Looce Waking up, eating toast... 10 minutes ago from web [^]" of before.

@ 4), you can't reply to individual tweets (yet) - see this GetSatisfaction thread about it - therefore a reply icon/link on individual tweets would not be as useful.

@ 3), can't argue right now, because on your example "single update" page, I couldn't click the star.

Looce started following the question "Is it possible for an @reply to be attached to a particular tweet? how?" in Twitter.

Looce started following the question "Is it possible for an @reply to be attached to a particular tweet? how?" in Twitter.

Looce replied on May 02, 2008 13:59 to the question "new to tweeting urls. help!" in Twitter:

Paste the URL into the What are you doing? box and Twitter makes it a TinyURL if the URL is longer than 30 characters (or 40 - see mdy's reply). However, make sure that your tweet is still 140 characters or less with the original link. If it isn't, go to TinyURL yourself - or some other service like xrl.us or rly.cc/s/ - and shorten the link before pasting it into your tweet.

Looce started following the question "Is there a problem with TinyURLs?" in Twitter.

Looce replied on May 02, 2008 13:34 to the idea "Don't count URL length in web UI before it gets shortened towards 140 character limit" in Twitter:

This behavior is even more annoying considering this problem.

Looce marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the question "Tweet Removal".

Looce started following the idea "How about daily and weekly versions of New Follower email?" in Twitter.

mdy's reply to "How do I post a link in twitter?" was just promoted to the most useful! Looce and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

You can include a URL as part of your Twitter update. If it goes over a certain length (30 characters, if I remember right), Twitter will convert it into a tinyurl (see http://tinyurl.com).

See also this related Get Satisfaction thread

Looce marked one of spling's replies in Twitter as useful. spling replied to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised". Looce and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Looce replied on May 01, 2008 08:01 to the idea "Icons on web should be optimised" in Twitter:

Addendum: The title "twitter" image (at the top-left on all Twitter pages on web) is also on an assets* server, with some ?1203138248 parameter as spling describes. That's not as bad, though I'd also like to see it on static.twitter.com.

The "favorited tweet" icon, if I may call it like that, is *also* upwards of 10 kilobytes.

Looce shared an idea in Twitter on May 01, 2008 07:05:

Icons on web should be optimised

The icons for "add to favorites", "reply to this tweet" and "updates protected" on web are far too big for their content: 13, 46 and 13 kilobytes, respectively. They make pages load very slowly, and even more so for dial-up users.

For their dimensions, they should be under 1 kilobyte.

Optimising the images would reduce the bandwidth usage on Twitter a lot as well.

Another suggestion would be to put all icons on the same assets* server (maybe static.twitter.com?) to take advantage of HTTP 1.1 keep-alive.