Twitter C/D

Feels like more proof that Twitter Inc people don't use Twitter

but like who made it whats it for

I'll use it for the same thing regardless what it's called.

stet otm

and if Snapchat is any indication, we're moving away from likes and follows generally, so this new heart is going in the wrong direction.

Also much of the time the favorite button is about conversation-ending, saying "I hear you even if I'm not going to reply." That ain't the same as heart.

people are gonna huff and puff but obviously nothing changes. seems obvious twitter wants to be a little less inscrutable to the uninitiated, their user growth numbers have been awful

If they would just embed Instagram photos instead of posting them as a URL, they would be back in the center of things in no time.

feel like twitters got it all wrong, imo they shd come to grips w the fact that they are a product for power users and shd build it to cater to those users, then concentrate on syndicating/monetizing all that free content thru diff channels

it sux that the end game of success for these companies is ruining their product and turning it into a way for grandparents to annoy their family members

OTM

it's like SBs becoming FPs all over again

― mookieproof, Tuesday, November 3, 2015 10:48 PM (57 minutes ago)

realest

so much otm here. wish i could acknowledge that without making this vapid post in the middle of it.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E27300_01/E27309/html/images/checkmark.png

too green.

how is a star hard to understand

‏@mulligan
With @Cluster we found hearts made a LOT more sense to users than stars. Stars were used sparingly. Hearts impulsively. Higher engagement.

‏@mulligan
Basically users thought:
Stars = favorites —> "I only can have a few favorites".
Hearts = likes —> "I can like as many things as I want."

star = you can give out as many as you want (they come on sheets, in stickers)

BUT

w/ added space-age advantage that they can be TAKEN AWAY

hearts pfft you can't like the whole world gotta keep that thing close to you

yes many sins in software are committed under the banner of "increasing engagement"

it'll be generally accepted that product managers ruin everything good by the second half of 2016

Should've seen this coming with the unlimited hearts on Periscope.

feel like you could do better if your goal is just to increase engagement. make a fart button with a dinky lil animation and a sound and that's going to get a good amount of engagement.

somebody at fusion wrote a chrome extension that turns the heart into an animated poop emoji

That reminds me, what do you guys think of Periscope? Feels like this era of instant streaming video has yet to really hit a critical point, but I've watched a few interesting streams.

I knew when I got the notification that my friend was trapped on the Tower of Terror ride at Disney World that it'd be a boring, if illuminating, moment

Man that ride fucks up a lot.

ive never seen anything good on there but a lot of ppl are convinced its the future, im skeptical that really that many ppl want to watch no production values live video from someones phone, idk live streaming startups have been coming and going for like ten years now, justin.tv where i used to watch illicit nba streams did turn into twitch and sell to amazon for a billion, the best streaming company is obv younow not just cause it sounds like the name of a fake app from a tv show but because u can watch teens sleep lol http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/im-addicted-to-watching-teens-sleep#.rh7ElWDxx

music industry is whistling in the dark about how periscope affect live shows; right now it's impossible to patrol cell phone shooting and periscope gives the audience the right to livestream... which no artist would ever voluntarily give up of course. so by and large venues and promoters are weirdly pretending like it doesn't exist while still obsessively banning camcorders with less resolution or online connectivity. it's gonna come to a head soon i think.

younow is a direct rip of this south korean stream platform so yah its obv the best one

nb i am not cosigning/cassandra-ing periscope specifically, just the core tech.

got super into korean streams where ppl order lots of take out and thean eat it on stream

there was also a rad one where this couple decorated their apt on stream

lmao

I would watch those

can u get amateur porn on stream, if so link pls

that falls more under camming

citizen panopticon a good thing as Ferguson and BLM streamers have made evident in the past year, whether it's #disruptive to #media is another thing I guess

Live streams from eye-level wearables will be the killer appliance for better and indeed worse.

can u get amateur porn on stream, if so link pls
― schlep and back trio (anagram)

chaturbate is such a terrible portmanteau word

Needs and s/z sound in there.

http://i.imgur.com/heDl5HI.jpg

hearts seems like not an important change to the experience of reading twitter

also for some reason it didn't change on my phone

yeah my iPhone app still has the stars

if u force quit the app the hearts will show up

Seen a couple of grumbling pieces about how twitter is going to die because its too toxic - so the heart thing is funny.

I don't want to see it go, its probably the only social media thing I am ever going to use (don't ever take photos, just like typing into boxes) and I really wanted to talk guerilla warfare with comrades as the UK enters a tense and volatile state of class war.

Hopefully they can de-list it off the stock exchange (LOL making money) or something twitter-like can come along in its place that won't be monetized or create jobs.

I DON'T FIGHT that much on Twitter. Feel like I'm missing something.

y'all https://twitter.com/dead_cells/status/661775509366394880

It's not that I'm offended by the heart itself. I just don't want the world to see a Tweet that I arrogantly deemed important with a cutsey little cupid symbol instead of something a little less emotional like a star.

So all the fart extensions in the world doesn't really do anything in this case.

Twitter is only social media platform I've been able to relate to. I approach it like the old USENET days - Tweetbot is a great client with enough filtering that can turn down the roar into a manageable ticker-tape of infosec global paranoia with interjections from any number of insane people. Some of them post here.

What galls me about the star into heart nonsense is that Twitter actually saw this as a way to fix themselves. Like they had debates and meetings about this.

Just picturing a manager walking into a meeting, striding up to the whiteboard without a word, and drawing a really huge heart. Worker bees begin buzzing, "where's he going with this? What's this all about?" as the manager slowly turns around to face his team.

You should direct The Social Network II: The Twitter Story.

It's got to wait until I'm finished working on my screenplay about the men and women who created Bud Light Lime.

What galls me about the star into heart nonsense is that Twitter actually saw this as a way to fix themselves.

^ This cuts through a lot of the outraged nonsense. Speaks volumes for what might be going on in the company.

this is what galls me about it, from their official blog:

We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we’ll be calling them likes. We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite.

The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones. The heart is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people. And in our tests, we found that people loved it.

Yeah, stars are really confusing and not everyone understands them whereas they do hearts???