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Nearby needs a redesign
Twinkle is my favorite iPhone app. I love it. I consider it iPhone's killer app. The reason Twinkle dominates all the other Twitter clients is Nearby. Because of how people are, Nearby is extremely annoying. Nearby is filled with one or two people who just FLOOD with replies to people about stuff we don't care about. I don't want to see "dante" talking to "QED" all day long about nothing.
They could simply turn off "Broadcast Location" in settings when they flood like this, or tap their location in each tweet before they post it to uncheck the location. But they don't. In fact, I've asked them. They're all a bunch of jerks.
What I want to see in Nearby are passers by on Interstate 5 who tweet about their road trips, or people tweeting about their day or night on the town, etc. Now, some people might want to see all of these replies, but I am not one of those people. So I submit to you my idea for Nearby.
Nearby needs its own settings. Show/hide for some things. Twinkle needs to have another feature for some of these to work, and that's that it needs to remember that some people have been "spotted" so to speak. Not everyone tweets just from Twinkle, so let's say I don't follow "dv3" but Twinkle picks him up in Nearby. When he goes home and tweets from Twitterific on his Mac, I would think he should show up in Nearby. I'm not sure how this would work with travelers though ... But it seems like a good idea to me.
Show/Hide:
*Rogue tweets (tweets by people that aren't @'s)
*Replies to Me from people Nearby (and known nearbys when tweeted from other clients, web and txt)
*Replies to Friends from Friends Nearby (or known nearby if turned on)
*Replied to Friends from Anyone Nearby (or known nearby if turned on)
Also, we need a Known nearbys on/off.
What do you guys think?
They could simply turn off "Broadcast Location" in settings when they flood like this, or tap their location in each tweet before they post it to uncheck the location. But they don't. In fact, I've asked them. They're all a bunch of jerks.
What I want to see in Nearby are passers by on Interstate 5 who tweet about their road trips, or people tweeting about their day or night on the town, etc. Now, some people might want to see all of these replies, but I am not one of those people. So I submit to you my idea for Nearby.
Nearby needs its own settings. Show/hide for some things. Twinkle needs to have another feature for some of these to work, and that's that it needs to remember that some people have been "spotted" so to speak. Not everyone tweets just from Twinkle, so let's say I don't follow "dv3" but Twinkle picks him up in Nearby. When he goes home and tweets from Twitterific on his Mac, I would think he should show up in Nearby. I'm not sure how this would work with travelers though ... But it seems like a good idea to me.
Show/Hide:
*Rogue tweets (tweets by people that aren't @'s)
*Replies to Me from people Nearby (and known nearbys when tweeted from other clients, web and txt)
*Replies to Friends from Friends Nearby (or known nearby if turned on)
*Replied to Friends from Anyone Nearby (or known nearby if turned on)
Also, we need a Known nearbys on/off.
What do you guys think?
I’m obsessed with nearby's poor design.
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Inappropriate?We're glad you like it! We've also noticed the need for those features inside Twinkle. The additions we have scheduled are somewhat close to your suggestions -- but separated into two features. First, we're adding in user blocking - so you won't have to ever see those users who clutter your nearby screen. Second, we're working on a redesign of the nearby feature to give you more options regarding who you see.
Our hope is that by combining those two features, you (and everyone else) can refine the tweets you see more to your liking.
Thank you for your input -- maybe in the future we can add more specific show/hide options. -
Inappropriate?Blocking is good. There are some people I don't ever want to see in Nearby. But some people flood, and in the middle of their twittereah they make some good rogue tweets that I don't want to miss. So if I block them then I'll miss those good tweets, but if I don't block them, then I'll still see all of those replies that I just don't wish to see.
Maybe you could elaborate on the redesign? I would love to hear what's in store and what options will be available in 1.2.
Another thing I would like to see is arbitrary distance tolerance. Would that even be possible? To be able to type in an exact distance for nearby instead of just choose one from a list. -
Inappropriate?For the time being we'll only have blocking for all a users tweets, but I can see why you'd want to block only the twittereah. (LOL!)
As the nearby redesign isn't quite coded yet I can't divulge too much. We're looking to add more distance options as well as following specific areas. Although, it's not so simple - so we'll see.
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