If you're a heavy TweetDeck user-we are bloggers, and thus ,we are heavy TweetDeck users-you might've noticed that notifications got way crappier this week. It turns out, it's not Twitter's fault, it's Google's. Hmph.
If you use TweetDeck's Google Chrome extension, you would've noticed the change immediately when it switched over because it's so much worse. Previously, notifications showed the entire tweet styled as a block that you could configure to pop up in your preferred corner of the screen. The new notifications are boring and decidedly less useful strips of text banished to the top right corner. Compare the before and after in this image.
Notwithstanding the content of the sample tweets, you can clearly see that the old style on the left is way more useful. Not only do the notifications on the right not show you an avatar-they don't even show you the entire tweet. And lets not under-estimate the utility of configuring where they're popping up-when every other notification is in the top right, it's nice to be able to put some in another place. Or at least, that's how I used them.
So yeah, worse. What happened?
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