Twitter Client UI’s
The problem in standard twitter interfaces is that they just display a single list of messages. But everyone is following a different list of people, and as a result the list is impossible to visually group and filter.
I think this can be solved with a horizontal layout, giving each person their own row.
Here’s how it would work:
- Each person is given only one row.
- When someone tweets:
- The new tweet is pushed onto the start of that row… older tweets are squished to the right to make space, based on window width. Only the current tweet is dispalyed fully. Mouse over to see older tweets fully.
- The row for that person is reordered to the top of the list of rows.
For bonous points @ mentions of a person are added to both the tweeters row and the recipiets row if they are also being followed.
The end result, I think, is that the UI is now conversation based instead of time based.
And now I can take this project off my todo list. But I hope someone else does it!
