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UX Strategy for Fatty McTwitter-Star

There have been thousands of Twitter apps— some even handle posts that exceed 140 characters. (a handful are even pleasurable to use)

Most Twitter apps would probably work well for me and the rest of the normals. It's even likely that the designers and developers of Twitter apps are just like me— with only a handful of followers.

We design what we know best— inside our box. 

I've been on past development projects and have been charged to design for scalability— where data/feedback components expand and adapt without breaking the interface. Surely most of the popular Twitter apps would also adapt/scale across the user interface.

But what's the experience for the Twitter-star?

Apart from the technical aspects, what's the true user experience when an account holder has hundreds of thousands/several million followers? How are they using it? How frustrating is it when there are thousands of replies in an hour? What happens to Justin Bieber's blah-berry when the world wishes him a happy birthday?

As I write this, I obviously have ideas about how to handle this— one includes a twitter-concierge service, amounting to a room of Cha-Cha operators. And yes— that's a joke.

But curiously— what's the UX Strategy for that type of scale?

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