Lowcountry Geek

My two cents on the #NewTwitter is that I find it bulky and will continue not to use Twitter.com other than for those random occasions when I have to.

One of the most annoying things is that it doesn't auto-refresh and offer a true live stream but instead requires me to click to update.

As long as Tweetdeck remains a free service I'll probably stick with that on the PC and Droid. 

I won't get into all of the ins and outs of the #NewTwitter, but something I've found as it was rolled out to me this morning that was not covered with the official Twitter announcement (at least not that I saw) is that the new layout drastically narrows the rails and subsequently eliminates a large portion of the area that was open to a custom background.

The rails are so narrow that designing anything worthwhile in those sections will be very difficult and really not of much use.

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