Twitter C/D

Another Eulogy for Twitter: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

Some of this rings true. It does feel a bit less fun to me, and a lot of the stuff that used to be fun to join, like shared shouting at the telly, seems to have stopped. I used to think it was just me/the people I follow, but maybe it's wider than that?

Also I'm pretty sure the continual fucking-around they're doing with the site and the apps is making it completely bewildering for new people, rather than a fun challenge like it used to be

Yeah I pine for the days of making pithy commments about x-factor with chris addison and caitlin moran and tracey thorn as well

Also I'm pretty sure the continual fucking-around they're doing with the site and the apps is making it completely bewildering for new people, rather than a fun challenge like it used to be

― stet, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:46 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup http://valleywag.gawker.com/twitter-is-losing-momentum-and-money-1569492846

or at least they have failed at making it easy to use

shd prob just admit they are a service for l33t users and cater to that

I'm glad I got Pet Shop Boys to retweet me before Twitter died

#BlessedEndGirls

I "get" that TWTR needs to make $ because it's public but it's such a sweet lil program it makes me sad that "people" think it's not worth anything and their developers keep trying to make it something its not

yes

If it were a program it could just be open-source and live forever, but it's a service. Expensive keeping servers running that can do everything we've come to expect in real time.

But yeah it's been product managed within an inch of its life.

looking forward to watching twitter burn

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/

forgive me, easier than cutting and pasting

http://i.imgur.com/wsokRHtl.jpg

insulted and hurt u chose not to include my thought leadership re that conversation

heds aint ready man

the twitter eulogy does resonate, have felt like that for a while, but there are certainly ways of making your own twitter better. mostly it comes down to not being boring and careerist

looking forward to watching twitter burn

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 16:46

are you trolling?

idk feel like its a balance like this morning i made room to RT some design stuff and also joke abt bob dylans death w lex

"I think the @ sign is scaffolding that makes Twitter hard to navigate. We need to push the scaffolding to the bkgrnd" -@dickc on @'s
https://twitter.com/elisewho/status/461542875021721600

This guy is a huge part of the problem. Trying to hide the scaffolding is what is making it so hard to use now

lol @dickc

thats fucking insane

how so?

that is batshit crazy

like i guess maybe its a ~twitter secret~ that you can't have an @ as your first character if you want others to see it, and that slows some newer people on the learning curve?

but i can't see an argument that one of the platform's most iconic characters whose inclusion in your 140 characters is necessary as part of the platform is just 'scaffolding'--its a necessary part of the body of your message that you're *directing* it at someone. just 'tagging' them like you might on fb is so much more passive and less meaningful imo. and does that make the hashtag scaffolding too?

i don't think they're going to remove either of those features, but i wouldn't be surprised if they make a move to make them more accessible, which isn't a bad idea esp. if they can come up with a way to do it without alienating their current userbase

fuck the "user base"

― markers, Monday, April 28, 2014 1:00 PM (2 days ago)

just because you don't find twitter useful doesn't mean it's not useful. for me, instagram is a much less enjoyable platform

what does "more accessible" mean there?

the @ and # are one of the big reasons companies fuck w twitter over facebook like when they throw a hashtag in corner of the screen of a tv show, its iconic, like there maybe be some usability problems w that but youre way past the point of no return

it's well known that people get on twitter and then don't know what to do

like i guess maybe its a ~twitter secret~ that you can't have an @ as your first character if you want others to see it, and that slows some newer people on the learning curve?

there are official organisations and people who have been on twitter for years who seem not to realise this - ditto the "if you're a protected account, people who don't follow you can't see your @s of them"

it's well known that people get on twitter and then don't know what to do

― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure but im sayin youre not gonna solve that by eliminating yr most core features youre going to have to find a better way, or maybe just admit youre a service thats not gonna ever be as big as facebook

the big problem for twitter might just be that it's not that essential to most people's lives. it's good if you're really interested in a bunch of things or want to be active in some community, and some people use it as a more private facebook of sorts, but beyond that, if you just want to interact with your friends facebook might be enough. or instagram. or imessage.

xpost i don't think you have to necessarily "eliminate" it. might there be a way to even keep the @ stuff and make it easier for new users to get a handle on?

twitter knows its not a place it interact w yr friends, why it calls itself an info network not a social network

people USE it as that though

some. not everyone. but some.

most people don't need want an "information network" or whatever in their lives.

strike "need"

people USE it as that though

― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:14 PM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not nearly the primary use case tho

maybe just admit youre a service thats not gonna ever be as big as facebook

this might be what they have to do

most people don't need want an "information network" or whatever in their lives.

― markers, Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:15 PM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if someone cld perfect the one place to get all your news thing i guarantee you people would be lining up to join

twitter is at its best when it's primarily for interacting with your friends about information

xpost why couldn't facebook be that for them?

like, news shouldn't be the point but a minor feature from which discussions with your friends are born

*nods*

facebook is crap

i could see facebook having a resurgence of sorts if people trim their friendslists - no one ever completely abandoned it à la myspace because it always fulfilled a functional use (events, basically)

and messages and photos