New Twitter Functionality Feedback

Hi,

Please, please tell me there is a way to turn OFF the new Twitter feature. I am sorry to rain on your parade, I am sure you think it is a nice addition, but it does not load, period. Sorry but I am not a fan. I have a few reasons. Top on the list is functionality.

I have seen it load exactly once on my blog. The rest of the time it just sits there with the "loading" icon spinning. The right side (with the recent tweets) loads just fine, the left side that shows discussion of said page, nada.

I am a patient person, and I am a savvy web user. And I understand this is a beta product. But even I am not going to wait for that thing to load. I have waited for over five minutes at a time and never seen it load on most pages. When your Average Joe sees that spinning loading icon for any amount of time over a few seconds, he is going to think that something is wrong with the web site, and this greatly discourages use of the feature. In fact, it could kill it. If something on a site does not work, a user will just not use it, or leave the site.

It makes me want to take Twitter off of our toolbar all together because the new feature does not work and is not configurable. I really liked the old Twitter widget. I do like that you are now pulling in account information, though.

Also, to be quite honest, I do not see the value of displaying tweets about said article page. I assume it is taking so long to load (or not loading at all) because you are querying the Twitter API for instances of Article XYZ. Either the Twitter API is timing out, refusing your calls, or something, because that left part of the Twitter Dashboard just is not loading.

So, I really hope that you can turn OFF that left half of the Twitter Dashboard. And if not, I beg you to create the functionality to be able to do that, preferably from the Wibiya dashboard on your web site (which I see has no configurable options besides the Twitter account, like before).

Also, I much preferred the Twitter T icon, and not the full Twitter logo. Not just for brevity sake, but if you are working on adding more wizbang features in the future, said toolbar is going to become and unwieldy mess with very little screen real estate to work with. Is it possible to change that back to the T icon you had before?

Your toolbar has a very nice minimalist look to it, and I really like that. With that full Twitter logo there, it looses that. Also, because of the color and amount of color (bright blue in this case) the eye darts to it. This might sound like a good thing, but is not a desired effect. The content on the page should be the most important thing on the page. The Wibiya Toolbar should compliment the feature set of the site.

I have written you personally but will also post this to the Get Satisfaction site to see if others have the same option and/or performance issues that I do.

Ken