Twitbird v2.4 introduced a new read/unread mechanism, some of you might have trouble with it, this article is about how it works and why we made it.
In previous twitbird, when you navigate into an item like Home or Mentions, and you step back, the tweets in that item would be all marked as read no matter you really read it or not. It's a little annoying because sometimes you just want to navigate to another item or need launch another application on your phone. We are aware of this problem, and then we implemented this new read/unread mechanism.
This new mechanism will ease the use of twitbird very much.
- it marks tweets that really shows on the screen as read. So you don't need to worry about other tweets that's not on the screen but in the same page. When you navigates out of current item, tweets showed on screen would be marked as read.
- we prevent "quick scroll tweets" from being marked as read. There's a little tip of iPhone, you can touch the status bar (which has Carrier, time and battery info) to scroll to the top of the screen. The scrolling is very fast, and we prevent the scrolled tweets being marked as read if you want to read your new tweets from newest to oldest.
- if you don't like the new mechanism and want to mark all tweets as read, there's a check button on the bottom of the screen, you can use it to mark all tweets as read.
- we have introduced "global read status" feature, this feature would help you recognize some tweets has been marked as read in some items so you don't need to read it again in other items. So you can tap the "first unread" button on the bottom of the screen to filter new tweets from read ones. then you can only read those you haven't read.
If you have some review or idea about this new feature, please leave a comment on this article, thank you.
