{"id":379,"date":"2011-05-23T23:53:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2011-05-23T23:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:53:05","slug":"twitter-email-notifications-iphone-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nataliecopuroglu.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Twitter email notifications on the iPhone: FAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter unveiled new email notifications. The good news? On a computer, it looks great. The bad news? On the iPhone, it looks like crap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-383\" title=\"Twitter-email\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/twitter-email.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter-email\" width=\"240\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you can see below, the design on a desktop looks much better than what it used to. The design is sleeker (for example, the world map behind the logo has replaced the plain blue bar) , the new colors resemble those of the new homepage. I also really like the fact that the email now tells you how may users you follow who also follow your new follower. This is a very useful added feature instead of the following\/follower lines in the old design.<\/p>\n<p>New design:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Twitter-normal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-23.13.56.png\" alt=\"Twitter-normal\" width=\"485\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Old design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-23.22.25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-382\" title=\"Old-design\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-23.22.25.png\" alt=\"Old-design\" width=\"491\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t get too excited. Twitter managed to screw this up on the mobile. \u00a0This is what the same notification looks like on my iPhone:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-391\" title=\"Twitter-iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliecopuroglu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Screen-shot-2011-05-23-at-23.51.06.png\" alt=\"Twitter-iphone\" width=\"367\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why Twitter hasn&#8217;t tested the new email notification on the iPhone before rolling it out to everyone. Also, why hasn&#8217;t it been fixed already? Now I wonder if it is just on the iPhone or if it could be on the Blackberry or Android as well?<br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What can we learn from this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before sending a newsletter, check that the email (the formatting, the layout and so on) looks good on a range of devices.<\/li>\n<li>Do not forget mobile users: \u00a0a great number of your customers already checks their emails on their phones.<\/li>\n<li>Do not roll out a newsletter before doing a pilot test.<\/li>\n<li>This extra effort will be a great return on investment in the future, as the trend (users checking their emails primarily on their phones) is likely to increase in the near future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have an iPhone\/Blackberry\/Android or any phone with an access to the Internet, let me know below if the format of Twitter notifications has changed and if it has changed for the worst&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 25th of May: <\/strong>Twitter fixed the formatting of the email notifications. The lesson from this? Do complain in a blog post when things go wrong, you never know who could be listening!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter unveiled new email notifications. The good news? On a computer, it looks great. The bad news? 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