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  TweetDeck For Chrome & The Massive Wasting of Screen Real Estate. Why?
  June 11, 2012 Dan Levy	Leave a comment
  I have been using TweetDeck for Chrome at work for the past bit and this is one thing that just astounds me about the client. I have no idea why this is, I truly don't.
  I would love to know why Twitter (which now owns TweetDeck) decided to do this with their client. The latest version – 1.4 – was last updated April 27, 2012 and I don't use the in Chrome app all that much preferring, at home, to use the old Adobe AIR client (which was last updated before TweetDeck got bought by Twitter and they switched the format of it to a native app.) As far as I can tell, you can't even make the columns skinnier so as to fit more of them on the screen (which you can do with the old Adobe AIR version of the app).
  When you look in the Chrome Store at the images they show of the app, they show the Mac version which doesn't seem to suffer from this horrendous waste of space (see above) but at the same time it also doesn't allow/have more than three columns on a page which is still downright odd.
  If you know a work around for this or simply how to remedy the situation please do let me know! (Suggesting I use a different client isn't what I'm looking for unless it is one which has sprung up to replace the Adobe AIR version of TweetDeck which Twitter has seemingly abandoned). Until then, it seems as if Twitter may be very successful in their apparent goal of driving people into the hands of other third-party API accessing Twitter apps and away from the one they spent a lot of money buying, TweetDeck.
  TweetDeck for Chrome Mac image taken from Chrome Web Store.
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  Categories: Contemplations Tags: Adobe AIR, Chrome, Google Chrome, Social Networking, TweetDeck, TweetDeck columns, TweetDeck for Chome Mac, TweetDeck for Chrome, TweetDeck for Chrome PC, Twitter
  Suggestion: When Changing Your Twitter Handle Overlay Your Old One On Your Avatar
  January 5, 2011 Dan Levy	1 comment
  In my time on Twitter I have seen a number of people who have changed their "Twitter handle" – formally referred to by Twitter as a "Username" – from one day to the next with no warning or notice. Sometimes, it is because the name they originally wanted has been let back into the public domain for whatever reason. Sometimes it is just because the person decided they wanted to switch and just picked a new handle. Often, these new handles don't have anything to do with the old handle and the person with the new handle decides to change their Twitter avatar (profile picture) as well. This results in people, like me and you, starting to see some seemingly random person posting in their tweet stream. Then we begin wondering who this person is and when did we start following them? This is especially true when the person's avatar isn't a very good or clear picture of them or if they have no other information in their profile like their full name listed, a completed bio, or a link to another website of theirs.
  When you change your Twitter handle go into whatever image editor you use and insert your OLD handle in a readable font, size, and color in a noticeable place (top or bottom) of the new avatar.
  As such, I am going to suggest a new point of "Twitter Etiquette" (Twetiquette? Twitterqette?). When you change your Twitter handle go into Paint (the simplest image editor which every copy of Microsoft Windows comes with) or whatever image editor you use and insert your OLD handle in a readable font, size, and color in a noticeable place (top or bottom) of the new avatar. Leave it there for a week or so, that should be long enough.
  Doing this is much more effective and much less annoying than tweeting a message every day (or more) "Hey I used to be @OldHandle but this is account now has a new handle" when you change your handle.
  My current (Jan 5, 2011) New Years themed avatar with my "old handle" noted.
  The only other – possibly better – way I could think of to do this would be to change your "Name" to include your old handle. In this method, where my handle on Twitter, as you know, is @Dan_L and my "Name" is Dan Levy if I were to change my handle to @GuruDan or something like that I would simply change my "Name" to 'Dan Levy formerly @Dan_L'.
  What do you think? Is it a simple and yet effective & unobtrusive enough way to accomplish the goal of letting everyone know your new Twitter handle? Have a better idea? Let me know.
  Categories: Tech-Etiquette Tags: Online Communities, postaday2011, Social Media, Social Networking, suggestion, Twetiquette, Twitter, Twitterqette
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