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Twitter Teases Hiding 'Likes' and 'Retweets' Counts, Color-Coded Replies in Biggest Set of Changes To Its Social Media Service Since it Launched in 2006 (nbcnews.com)
Twitter is teasing some of the biggest changes to its social media service since it first launched in 2006, aiming to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation." From a report: The company is also introducing new features to enhance pictures and video on the app in an effort to encourage users to make more use of the cameras on their smartphones, a move that adds features similar to those found on the apps of some of its main competition: Instagram and Snapchat. "We've really intentionally tried to make the images and footage that are captured on the ground at an event look different than other images and videos that you might attach to a tweet," said Keith Coleman, Twitter's head of consumer product. On Tuesday, the company offered the public its first look at a new prototype for the Twitter app, which the company is calling "twttr" in a nod to CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet, that includes a variety of changes to how Twitter looks and operates, centered on a new format for conversations and color-coded replies. The prototype also removes the engagement counts showing the number of retweets or "likes" a tweet receives. This change is designed to make Twitter a little friendlier.
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Seems like it will take a lot of the (remaining) fun from Twitter, not being able to see the ratio of likes to comments...
I can't see a good case to hide either. Seeing how much something is liked can be really inspiring for some meaningful or heartwarming tweet (yes there are such things).
Similarly, seeing reply count is kind of nice as a metric of, should I even bother to reply, or read responses?
Seems like all changes are made to fight content Twitter dislikes. But all it ever does is make things worse for good content, and for Twitter usability...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Struggling to matter in any way, and failing. You are the world's most pathetic incel loser Kendall. No wonder you said you want to date Alexa, you have zero life.
As a follow up to no Facebook, Twitter being down would be great also.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
With this change, Twitter is doubling down on removing content they don't agree with and making it harder to see when dumb comments from their anointed "blue checks" are being ratio'd into oblivion. "Conform or be cast out."
we used to have open protocols and you could make your client just so you liked it. And usually there were multiple clients to choose from, with all sorts of configurable options.
These days it's world news when a stupid company with a stupidly dumb "product" adds a few teeny basic features "in biggest set of changes since it launched". Makes one wonder what they've been up to in the meantime.
This you call progress.
But all it does is make me feel old and yearn for the days when USENET (and FidoNet, and so on) were full of people who cared about what they wrote. There was less to read, but more to enjoy.
The characterization was actually... more accurate than not. Sorry crybaby Republicans, the truth hurts - no wonder you avoid it like it would fucking kill you, lol. It probably will. Life in prison awaits the Drumpftard traitors.
And there's no Twitter in Federal prison, ask your butt-buddy Skrelli when you see her. She just bought herself another year, lol.
How about hiding tweets, and adverts too?
How glorious would it be if Twitter was just a blank page?
...still no Edit button. *sigh*
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Finally! A platform not afraid to highlight wrongthink so I know to immediately disregard their information without further consideration. Thanks big daddy, Twitter.
Do whatever you like, I don't use that garbage anyway. If Twitter went away tomorrow the Internet could only improve.
It's not even 2 weeks until April First, for this kind of shit.
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The information posted here is incorrect. Like and retweet totals are just not as emphasized when you tap into a reply. https://twitter.com/karissabe/status/1105895429361688576
I'm color blind, thx.
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Struggling to matter in any way, and failing. You are the world's most pathetic incel loser Kendall. No wonder you said you want to date Alexa, you have zero life.
"SJW's are literally all I can think about now. They dominate my mind with their SJW-ness. Seriously, SJW was my favorite 3-letter word grouping, I used to be SJW myself until the hippies beat me up and stole it. Stupid SJW's! So mean."
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I reengaged with Twitter for about a month not long ago, a decade after emitting my first tentative Tweet, and for a few days I didn't entirely hate the experience.
At first I started small, but then I threw caution to the wind, and began following people from both the technological and the political side of the spectrum. Within two days of having technology and politics randomly jumbled into my feed, I had mothballed my Twitter account for another decade.
I can be highly asynchronous in my mental appetites, but that brief fly-by of the ultimate conflation nearly killed me. I guess Twitter doesn't want to let me sort or partition my feed, because then some portion of it wouldn't be urgently fresh, and a week later—on a designated day of the week, perhaps—I might rudely bump some stale political threads that are hours cold.
There is no solution that I can foresee to social media's inherent velocity problem.
What fires together, wires together.
Unless you want to turn your brain into a transporter-accident molten howl, the velocity-vortex tuna melt is best avoided.
[*] Apparently there are some on again, off again add-ons to accomplish this in various browser environments, but I simply can't summon up the curatorial mojo to engage with this hapless cause.
[**] GenX really should be called the Now generation. Like Woodstockers later in life, with the wisdom of years they'll recall their chosen mind-altering drug with hazy recollections of glam happening nostalgia and visceral shudders of inward disgust.
Twitter is for twits.
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twitter is just dumb enough to do this. will surely hurt their platform.
Seeing the likes and retweets is useful to gauge how much support a thought expressed in a tweet actually has. You can easily identify marginal opinions and storms in a teacup. Hiding those will make it possible to promote tweets that the company likes, even if they are utterly unpopular.