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Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192 https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192
by nreece 11y ago
Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192 https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192
- scrollaway 11y agoHow... unreadable. Congratulations Twitter?
- ulfw 11y agoExactly. The never really evolving product is what hampered their growth lately.
- codingdave 11y agoWhat a perfect example of why twitter is a terrible platform for communication of all but the simplest thoughts.
- chippy 11y agoI'm sort of unsure of this generally. It's certainly changed. My examples are: The gossip and snark of say Startup L Jackson vs the gossip and snark of a valleywag post. IRC backchannels during conferences versus a Tweet Wall.
- minimaxir 11y agoThose aren't good counterarguments in favor of Twitter. Valleywag is dead because of reasons unrelated to the death of media (and I genuinely miss it). IRC backchannels are dead because IRC is dead.
- coldpie 11y ago> IRC is dead I assure you, it is not.
- airencracken 11y agoOh man. I'll have to tell Freenode that IRC is dead so they can shut down all of their servers.
- code4tee 11y agoTotally unreadable. This sums up a lot of what's wrong with Twitter. If even the CEO struggles to communicate effectively using the platform then...
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- criddell 11y agoDave Winer mocked up how a fat tweet could look and I think he has it right: http://scripting.com/2015/10/02/whatWouldAFatTweetLookLike.html http://scripting.com/2015/10/02/whatWouldAFatTweetLookLike.h... Obviously, they've thought of this internally too. I wonder what the point of the 140 character limit is today (I think it made sense originally).
- catshirt 11y ago"see more" link? groundbreaking stuff. someone get Twitter on the line! i know Dave deserves respect but if i was even a janitor at Twitter this post would piss me off.
- davewiner 11y agoIt wasn't written for the janitor at Twitter, rather it was for people outside Twitter who want to think about what might be coming next. Yes, it is obvious. The idea was taken straight out of Facebook. I thought people would benefit from seeing what it would look like in action. As developers it's easy for us to imagine it, but even we need to mock things up to get a look at it, to help think better about it.
- catshirt 11y agoi think my main point is that the display mechanism must be the least of the concerns with respect to introducing > 140 characters. that is to say- I don't believe anyone thinks it's an aesthetic impossibility. it seems fruitless to dictate "how" without being part of the "why and why not" discussions.
- josu 11y agoIf he had been appointed CEO of a fortune cookie factory would he have made the announcement through fortune cookies? What about a tattoo parlor?
- mcphilip 11y agoPulling up that link in Safari on mobile really demonstrates how bad the UI/UX is. There is no obvious way to see anything other than the first tweet in the series: http://m.imgur.com/7JSETBc http://m.imgur.com/7JSETBc
- 100k 11y agoHa. Thanks for the note. I'm reading on Mobile Safari, so without it, I would have thought Dorsey's message was just a single, ambiguous tweet.