The simplest solution I can think of would be to add a ‘Switch account’ link in the existing account menu, launching a small overlay or side-menu allowing account selection.
Makes perfect sense for the twitter web UI to add fast account switching (much like the updated google account bar), or perhaps some way of blending multiple feeds into a single experience. Admittedly it’s harder to log out of and back into a mobile app than a webpage, but why don’t we have this feature included in the web UI? Other 3rd party apps manage multiple accounts better, but thats what many are specifically designed to do. The existing quick profile switching while composing a tweet (accessed by tapping the account name in the header to access a list) is especially useful. This could be further improved by allowing easy account switching directly from the main timeline by tapping on the Twitter icon in the reader bar. The mobile apps have account switching, within a few taps via your account page you can switch to any number of multiple accounts you run. Follows a critique identifying everything that annoys me day-to-day using twitter across it’s variety of interfaces. I liked the idea of picking up where I left off and slowly realised it’s not the end of the world if some tweets slipped by unread.Īlthough I may reflect upon features of some 3rd party apps as nice additions, I’ll focus mainly on the native twitter UI’s for this analysis. I started preferring a timed stints approach of allowing myself access for short periods of time during the day.
I also found as my twitter activity grew I found the multi column approach with dynamically updating feed that Tweetdeck offers too much to take in. I believe the tables are starting to turn now twitter is both stable and improving its experience all the time. For such a long time it was the service rather than the interface that was the appeal, allowing the 3rd party clients market to thrive. I always used to use 3rd party apps (mostly Tweetdeck) to access twitter but found myself of late gravitating more towards the web interface as it has gradually improved. At work I use the web UI, on the go I use mobile app, and at home I use the iPad app.
I (as I imagine most users do) use a collection of interfaces to access twitter throughout the day and week.
As brilliant as twitter is, I hope to highlight how it could be made better and would hope to see some of these features being released over the course of the next few years. Following the recent Twitter web UI redesign across all its platforms ( new twitter GUI PSD resource we created available to download for free) I thought it a good time to look back and reflect on the still annoying interface niggles & inconsistencies that inhibit an ideal user experience across the board by providing a twitter iOS app and web UI review.
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