I have 3 or 4 Twitter apps on my iPhone, but my preferred one is the actual Twitter app itself. Simple and intuitive, it does all I want in a slick and easy way.Today v3.3 became available, and it brings a number of neat tweaks and updates that make the whole process of tweeting even better.
BUT, and it's a huge but..............
One of the updates in v3.3 puts a trend bar at the top of the timeline - it's that horrible grey box with #worldbookday in the screenshot here. It constantly updates with the latest trending topics, and here's the rub. You can't turn it off.
I'm personally not interested in trending topics. I've never taken any notice of them, and I don't want them forced on me in a way that I can't turn off. They're worse than ads. I've got a few "lite" apps that have ads, and they're nowhere near as obtrusive and annoying as this.
The iTunes stores already has a ream of responses (including one from me) about how absolutely annoying this is.
A piece of software shouldn't make you angry, but this has. It's turned an app I use every day - several times a day, and generally have found to be a very decent app into something I hate in an instant.
I hope Twitter takes notice of user feedback and at the very least provides a quick update with the opportunity to turn this bloody thing off.
In the meantime I've switched to another twitter app.
I can't believe I've got so het up about this, but there you go. I am. Grrrrr....
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