So... the articles author is moaning about a bug and not an intended feature.. and when brought to Twitters attention they fixed it.! So the entire article is a non event.
Twitter just got sh**tier: Natter emitter hit by code critter, fritters web glitter
Twitter has been cast back into the dark ages of 2006 after a number of useful functions disappeared from its website without warning or explanation. A quick rummage around the site shows that the @username autocomplete feature no longer works in the search or new tweet box. And all the photos posted by twits have vanished …
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Wednesday 4th September 2013 15:05 GMT RobHib
The folly of continually fiddling.
This fiddling with features and UIs etc. is getting out of hand. If it's not Microsoft with abominations such as the Ribbon and Windows 8 then it's Twitter et al.
Earlier today I used Flickr for the first time in ages and found it too had fucked up the slide show feature, it's now a real pain to use. Frankly, I'm getting pretty pissed of with it nonsense. What makes it worse is the little authoritarian and faceless bureaucrats behind the show who insist on forcing a single UI or set of features onto ALL users. If they have to change things then why not an easy choice?
Seemingly, these monopolies have an overabundance of programmers who'd be out of work if they had nothing to do, thus it's change just for the sake of it. Of course, they're aided and abetted by useless marketing types who can come up with nothing more original than the notion of a single corporate look and feel--the 'image' thingy that marketing types are obsessed with.
Well, it's time they were told that not all consumers are the same.
Before these large internet monopolies took hold, we used to have a notion which we called 'choice'.
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Wednesday 4th September 2013 21:22 GMT Pierson
Up .... down ... up ... down ...
As of 2210, the whole of twitter.com appears down: just getting a blue banner page with "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing - we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."
"Technically wrong" my hairy arse - something's literally wrong! And, I LOVE the chutzpah they show, thanking the user for "noticing" their error screen. Do Twitter employ Mel Brooks to write their error pages?
Oh, and while I was writing this, it appears to have come back on line again - I expect it was due to Nargles.