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by jonknee 5024 days ago
The new iPad app is atrocious. I thought I somehow accidentally got the phone version somehow because it appeared so jumbled. It's better in portrait, but I normally use landscape and there is an incredible amount of unused space. I still haven't figured out how to switch to my other Twitter accounts, I just see one. The web view is now full screen so I can't read tweets and have a link open at the same time (handy with breaking news to read the story and then reactions).

tl;dr seems like a huge step back

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Agree. I also use the iPad in landscape and this app is definitely a big step back.

So much wasted/unused space.

It's like they didn't consider landscape at all. Rotating simply adds margins to the side of the main UITableView. Baffling. But after they made a power play to ensure they don't have competition in the Twitter app space, it's infuriating.

In a very short time they have taken out 3rd party apps and made their own worse (for no apparent gain on their end, the new app doesn't appear to have more ads or anything).

Hold on the "Me" icon to switch accounts. It took me a while to find that.
Wow, that was unintuitive, but thanks for the tip. There's three inches of empty space available and I have to figure out to hold an icon to switch accounts. Not to mention I can no longer see the status of those other accounts (I await the push notification that I can't find because it's in another account somewhere).