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Thu, 19 Nov 2009

New Tweets

Recently my followed tweets have been pouring in. Using Echofon as a Firefox plugin has worked well for the most part, but when I have a bunch built up, Echofon doesn't do the job at the moment. It doesn't show the whole list of "new" tweets. So I have resorted to going to my Twitter home page where it is easier to scroll down through several pages of tweets I have not read. Echofon works fine if I only have a few to read since I last checked.

The big news, though is the "new tweet" notification. The page itself doesn't update live, instead, I am advised to refresh the page in order to see the new information. I think I actually like the process better than having the page jump to update each time a new tweet arrives. That would make the page difficult to read during times of frequent updates. The NFL scores page does a live update, but the update is confined to an unchanging block so the screen does not jump when information changes. Suddenly appearing tweets would cause a problem because they would produce a new "paragraph" at the top for each tweet and push the rest of the page downward. I like this solution to the need to check for updates.

The page refresh is easy, too. Just click on the notice and the page refreshes with the new tweets right at the top; easy!