Twitter updates iOS app following mass hysteria over ‘Quick Bar’

By on Mar 9, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Software March 9, 2011

Twitter on Tuesday issued another update to its iOS application following an outpouring of public disgust with the app’s new “Quick Bar” feature. Twitter 3.3 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch was released just last week, and among its new features was a Quick Bar that the Twitter team seemed quite excited about. The feature placed a semiopaque banner that hung over the top of users’ main Twitter timelines and displayed a combination of ads and trends. Users were not impressed. In fact, they almost unanimously seemed to loathe the new feature, and many were quite vocal with their feelings on the matter. Thankfully, Twitter was quick to react — version 3.3.1 of the iOS app pins the Quick Bar to the top of the timeline and prevents it from obstructing tweets. For those of you who haven’t already defected, the new version is available immediately in the App Store.

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  • Anonymous

    Echofon ftw.

  • Anonymous

    A more accurate statement would be “Twitter updates iOS app before mass hysteria over QuickBar” given that the new update was submitted last week.

    It’s hilarious that people are pushing Echofon and Twitteriffic as alternatives to the Twitter app on the grounds that promoted trends are ads.

  • Anonymous

    Still sucks though. The problem with the dickbar is that it’s *advertisements*, not that it “overlays the tweets.” Doesn’t anyone make a simple, good-looking twitter client that doesn’t have ads? I paid for Twitter and I don’t mind paying for a client just to not have the advertisements.

    • Tn7871

      Paying for a client gives that app maker the money. How do you think Twitter itself is supposed to make anything? You’ll really miss it when they are gone because they couldn’t generate any revenue.

      • http://www.slymiser.com speener

        I love that people want things for free, and then whine when there are ads. Do they not know that the cost to run something like Twitter or Facebook is not covered by an app?

  • http://twitter.com/areyesrn Ant$

    so wait…you can’t take it off?

  • Anonymous

    Many of our new iPhone customers came into my store complaining about this. I suggested they try a DROID incredible and they quickly returned their iPhones for the DROID version on the twitter app.

    • Anonymous

      Your store must be very close to a mental health facility.

      • Anonymous

        LOL..Good one! I think it’s a fictitious store. I think he actually resides in that mental facility himself. He must somehow get access to a computer or something, then he posts on here.

      • Anonymous

        No hospital nearby. But there is a planned parenthood your mom and girlfriend frequent every couple months.

  • http://twitter.com/roessnakhan roessnakhan

    The dickbar should be something to toggle on/off and I should be able to use my own URL shortener. Luckily I found an old ipa in my iTunes folder, so I rolled back my Twitter version.

  • Tj

    A dickbar is a dickbar..

  • Anonymous

    How do you get the weather to be displayed in that top bar next to battery percentage?

    • Anonymous

      it’s a cydia app

    • Anonymous

      Use a MicroCell tower (or, Duct Tape).

  • Bowserm

    If you are jailbroken download twizzler. It removes the ad

  • fg

    The world needs a decentralized version of Twitter. Twitter is becoming a standard form of communication. I compare it to email. Would you want your email usage to be largely controlled by one company.

    • Anonymous

      Yes. If that one company was Google.

      • Anonymous

        No, if the company is Facebook (since material can never be deleted from FB).

      • Anonymous

        Ya..that way they can lose your Tweets too….LOL….Google = For Losers Like Goofan and Norm…

  • joshie

    Dogs & cats, living together…

  • Anonymous

    Hehe, they’re using a jailbroken phone ;) .

  • Tim

    what weather app is that??? i want my temp in the top toolbar!

  • Tim

    what weather app is that??? i want my current weather in the toolbar!

  • Anonymous

    To be clear, no one but Twitter called it the “Quickbar”. We all called it the “Dick bar”. Their CEO knows why.

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