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Latest tweet truncated on home page under new UI... Why?
Why is my latest tweet truncated on the home page under the new design? This seems like a pretty silly economy of space. How can I get it to display in full?
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Hi guys, it should be fixed for real this time. If you're still having problems, let us know.
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Inappropriate?This appears to be partially dependent on the browser. I see the whole tweet when I'm in Firefox, but it's truncated when I'm using Chrome.
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Inappropriate?Hmm. I'm using latest version of Safari. But I see the same issue when I view my home page in the latest version of Firefox (Mac).
The update does pop out to full size when I click on it. But what I want is for the whole tweet to display by default. Whatever space saving the UI engineers are trying to achieve, it seems like a bad tradeoff. Or at least an annoying one.
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Inappropriate?Thanks guys, this should be fixed. MDY, can you let me know if this is still happening for you in Chrome?
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Inappropriate?Hi Crystal... Chrome is now consistent with Firefox -- it's only showing the first two lines of the tweet instead of the full tweet.
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Inappropriate?So now that a big-time tech columnist's weighed in that this is bad UI design, can I get you guys to reconsider?
http://twitter.com/Ihnatko/statuses/9...
Thanks.
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Inappropriate?Let me clarify the above post: I'm going on the assumption that this tweet truncation thing is a deliberate design choice in the new Ui rather than a bug. Either way, though, it's a small but real pain.
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Inappropriate?This is also happening in Opera for Mac and Firefox for Mac. latest versions. I believe this is a bug, not a deliberate design choice. This bug hit me last night, so someone has obviously been fiddling with things the past few days. Everything was fine until last night! Now, all you have to do is do a search at search.twitter.com for @twitter and you can see a lot of people complaining. Problem is, most don't start their complaint with @twitter so twitter probably won't bother reading most of their replies.
I reiterate to Twitter that after the new redesign everything was fine, until yesterday. So you have done something and it is clearly a bug. Please fix it and stop ignoring us. You won't even comment on your blog or status report to tell us what is going on.
If my tweet includes "quote marks" or an ampersand as in &, it *will* be truncated even if it is at or under 140 characters. Usernames and URLs get truncated into useless links.
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Inappropriate?I too am seeing this in Firefox 3 on both my Mac at home and PC at work. Like Missy says, tweets under 140 characters are being truncated whenever someone uses quotation marks.
I retweeted @djroe: As reported by @Ihnatko, typing the character " now uses as many characters as typing the word QUOTE.
And I'm seeing this not only on my latest tweets, but on anyone in my timeline's tweets.
Please fix this bug!!
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Inappropriate?As of this afternoon, this bug should be fixed: the full update should now show on your home and profile pages. If you're still having this problem, please let us know, and include your:
1. user name
2. browser and operating system
Thanks!
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It hasn't been cured for me yet, I'm afraid! User: Eridanus; OS: Windows XP; Browsers: Chrome & Firefox 2.0.x. Thanks, crystal! -
Me either. username billbarol; mac 10.5.5; safari 3.1.2 and firefox 3.0.1. truncated tweet shows 2 lines + ellipses, and shortened timestamp ("about 4 hours ago"); if I click on the tweet it opens out to full length and verbose timestamp ("about 4 hours ago from web").
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Inappropriate?This is still occurring for me:
UserName: newcoventry
Browser: Chrome 0.2.149.30 Official Build 2200,
OS: Windows XP SP3
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Inappropriate?
This tweet doesn't exceed 140 characters, and displays perfectly fine over the Twitter API and on the web interface (it's not a victim of the " & bug). Once clicked:
username: chris24.
browser/os: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
I’m confused as to why a 140 character message would need to be shortened...
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Inappropriate?Drat.
It's not fixed after all. However, we've identified the problem and are working on fixing it today. I'll post again with an update when it's fixed, should be soon.
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Inappropriate?Hi guys, it should be fixed for real this time. If you're still having problems, let us know.
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Inappropriate?Nope. No change for me. Still seeing the issue in both Safari and Firefox.
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Inappropriate?Hey guys,
As it turns out, the real bug was causing the characters to display incorrectly in status updates and profile pages. This was also breaking links and causing improper truncation of statuses. We fixed that.
The "latest" status updates being truncated, however, is something we will continue to do on purpose, and is not a bug. The truncation of the status in the "latest" field is correct. My apologies for the miscommunication on that point.
If you hate it, I'd suggest starting another thread in the form of a feature request so I can can point the rest of the team to it as evidence that a truncated "latest" status is not a hit. On the other hand, if it doesn't bother you, you can consider the matter closed.
Thanks!
Crystal
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Inappropriate?Oh, for Pete's sake. OK, here:
http://is.gd/3lUP
If anybody reading this has been as annoyed by this new "feature" as I have, please go to the new thread and weigh in. Thanks.
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