Colin Barrett on the Twitter dickbar:

What about Twitter for iPhone’s existing mechanisms for notifying users about things happening outside the home timeline? Anyone who uses Twitter for iPhone has seen the blue dots underneath the tabs in the tab bar. And they will also be able to tell you Twitter for iPhone can’t keep track of which direct messages you’ve read to save its life — even ones you read in Twitter for iPhone.

Twitter should concentrate on fixing its existing notification mechanisms before adding new ones.

Right on target, I’d say.

I’m also sick of Twitter going on about coherent user experiences as an excuse for starting to lock down its API and mothball third-party clients, considering all of its own experiences lack coherence. It’s one thing that the Mac Twitter client differs somewhat from the iPad one. But when the iPad client—a universal app—wildly differs from the iPhone version (the same app, remember) in terms not only of interface but also basic functionality, Twitter’s talking out of its arse.