John Gruber on the new Twitter interface:

But more than anything, what I liked about Tweetie was its simplicity and clarity of purpose. If anything, Tweetie offered a better, more clearly-defined presentation of Twitter than even the Twitter.com website itself. Tweetie presented three main things:

• The main timeline, showing the tweets of those people you follow.
• Replies/mentions, showing tweets where you are mentioned or addressed.
• Direct messages, showing private messages in a IM-style threaded views.

That’s what Tweetie presented you with, and that, to me, is what Twitter is all about. The app fit my mental model of the service. Three things: what I subscribe to, people mentioning me, and direct messages.

Tweetie became my Twitter when it was released. I rarely used the web interface, and I was happy with what Twitter did with it on the iPhone and iPad when they purchased it.

The “New New Twitter”, however, is far from what Tweetie and Twitter once was. That’s why I’m switching to Tweetbot, so it will become my “New Twitter”.