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Twitter Scrambles For Next Big Feature, Bets On Merging Tweets, Hashtags, Moments (adweek.com)
Twitter is introducing a long requested feature: A better way to discover people, events and trends.
The company is introducing Explore, a tab that the company says will be a home for the most popular and relevant content on the platform. From a report: In a blog post today, product designer Angela Lam said the addition will house Trends, Moments, Search and live video. "Over the past year, we've been exploring different ways to make it simpler for people to find and use Trends, Moments, and Search," Lam wrote. "During our research process, people told us that the new Explore tab helped them easily find news, what's trending, and what's popular right now." Explore -- which will begin rolling out for iOS today and for Android within the next few weeks -- is similar to what Twitter has been testing with some users a few months back. The news also comes just a few weeks after CEO Jack Dorsey used his own account to crowdsource suggestions for what users think Twitter could do to improve the experience.
If Twitter follows Facebook's lead, this means redesigning the interface so more paid content is pushed your way, and it becomes harder to actually follow the people you do care about, or non-paid feeds ("those leeches").
I've pretty much quit social media so lemme know it it goes, 'mkay?
Seriously, no.
Nobody wants that.
We do want to edit our own tweets, though.
to manipulate the trends and drive public opinion...
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Wow sounds exactly like the stories tab in Snapchat... and should be just as much a wasteland. The strength of Twitter is in the diversity of communication, trying to boil it down leaves a bland and (probably literally) tasteless residue.
Does Snapchat get a bonus every time the industry follows them like little puppies?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Stuff like this will be the undoing of twitter.
New features will require a lot of coding, testing, promotion, and tweaking down the line. All of which costs money, which drives more advertisements, and eventually drives people away.
If they had just remained a simple, streamlined service to let people share pithy quips and unironic hashtags, they could easily pay their server costs with a few unobtrusive ads, and remain a relevant (if niche) product for a long time. As it stands, I'll be surprised if they survive another year or two.
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By far the best feature that they could possibly get would be remove their political bias. Twitter routinely censors or bans views that don't match their political views. Who seriously thinks excluding a significant portion of the population is a viable business?
Unfortunately they would rather burn their own house down than be politically tolerant. Political correctness strikes again....
the better humanity will be
This. Too many children now think that assbackwards way of doing it is the right way.
A block POTUS feature...
Silence is a state of mime.
It is too late to fix this now, the only thing left for us to do is tell them to get off our lawn.
Twitter is the home of "alternative facts". Nothing worth reading.
#alternativefacts
I have been easily reading Perl programs since Reagan was president, but Twitter is still line noise. When will there be a secret decoder ring?
Instead of going for the next 'big feature' they should focus on small, incremental improvements that make the user experience better. That's the kind of thing that keeps your customer base around and slowly expands it.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
another in a long line of reasons why fucking kids/millenials have ruined the internet for the rest of us.
Huh. Twitters re-purposing of @ as a sigil for the userid type never really bothered me. It's like something a Perl developer would do. Perl can really bother me... but this doesn't. I think the logic is that we already know you're @twitter.com, and that's for e-mail anyway. They could have used the reddit style /u/userid, which makes a bit more sense because users go under a directory structure in *NIX; but what's done is done.
I can't wait for the Y2038 bug!
#DeleteFacebook
Isn't that three words?
#DeleteFacebook
I don't even know what the fuck you are talking about and that makes me really happy.
Fuck Twitter.
#DeleteFacebook
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Dear Twitter,
I would like to write tweets, maybe attach an image. I'd like to be able to delete tweets, maybe edit them but no biggie if I can't.
I'd like to be able to decide who I follow, and see the tweets of the people I follow IN CHRONOFUCKINGLOGICAL ORDER. Twitter isn't Facebook, nor should it be: like many people, we're on Twitter because, get this, IT'S NOT FUCKING FACEBOOK. I don't need you or anyone else deciding what tweets I should see.
I'd be happy pay a modest fee, say $5 per month, to use the service without all those shitty ads. I don't want to see what I missed because, get this, I can already see what I missed if it's in CHRONOFUCKINGLOGICAL ORDER.
I don't want more than 140 characters, I don't want @whatever to disappear or be hidden.
I want you to be supportive again of what got Twitter popular in the first place: providing a platform people could use as a basis for applications, a platform that encouraged third-party clients, a platform hobbyists and companies could use and that would drive more people to Twitter.
Most of all, I'd like someone at Twitter to acknowledge and embrace the differences between Twitter and every other bloody social media platform, not try to turn it into another Instafacetumblewankr.
Oh and if you could randomly change every other word to "parp" for whatever Presidenteführer Donald J Tinyhands tweets, that would be awesome.
After the Trump's Twitter-fest dies down in a few weeks Twitter will start losing numbers again. I think Twitter's new feature is too little too late. The features I would like to see is: * RSS Feeds - Bring them back * Longer messages * Render multiple links in an article * Give an option in my timeline for 'people I've liked recently' or the 'whole stream' * Filters on my timeline by subject or word, including exclusions * Let me tag people I'm subscribed to like 'news', 'tech' 'health', 'family', ect.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
Is it too late to short this stock?
Because I see this business going downhill quickly.
For Twitter to crawl up it's own ass and die?
I thought the best feature was searching for asshole.
Now that was probably brought to you by a cluster of H1B's.
> Twitter is introducing a long requested featur
No. This wasn't requested by most of the users.
An edit function, which is still missing, is requested since years.