Twitter Ends Quickbar Experiment

Twitter has removed the QuickBar from its iPhone app, to the delight of a loud and passionate group of grumblers on the Web who bestowed it with another name that we can't publish here.

At the beginning of the month, Twitter updated its iPhone app so that its QuickBar, a small black strip across the top of a user's Twitter feed, would drop down and display what's trending on the microblogging service or show ads.

Well, the QuickBar totally never took hold. In fact, a lot of people were irritated by it giving the bar any number of nicknames across the Internet.

On Thursday, Twitter retreated from its QuickBar, removing it from the iPhone app and issuing a "mea culpa" of sorts to its users.

"The QuickBar was originally conceived to help users discover what's happening in the broader world beyond people they already follow," Twitter Creative Director Doug Bowman wrote in a blog post. "The bar was also seen as a potential means of in-app notifications for new @mentions, DMs, and other important activity."

We'll have to wait and see what Twitter comes up with next.