Gadgetory

well this is ross perot with a verge and we're looking at the brand new twitter for ipad okay let's get the big change out of the way first version 5.9 its is the sliding card interface altogether it's a shame because we really thought of as a clever use of the ipad screen instead we've got what feels like an oversized version of the iphone refresh the left-hand menus have been simplified to fall in line with Twitter's other clients home connect discover and of course your profile the timeline is smooth and quick well previously tapping a tweet would create a new car to the right all that is now done from within the timeline itself that's all well and good but when you start opening links or tapping on hashtags it now takes over the entire window it's really jarring experience a movement from portrait to landscape you really get a sense of the wasted screen space in the new redesign Twitter did a great job of updating to include interactions and conversation threads and the new profile pages are indeed very nice but we're still wondering why that couldn't be incorporated into the sliding card interface itself on the whole the redesign falls in line with Twitter's new unified future but in the process the company is giving up a part of its past that really stood out and in this case dropping the cars really does feel a bit needless