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Much as I respect Thompson's insights (his Stratechery newsletter is worth subscribing to), I think that he's off base with this analysis. Moments seems to be o

Much as I respect Thompson's insights (his Stratechery newsletter is worth subscribing to), I think that he's off base with this analysis. Moments seems to be one of those products that media-watchers like, but that actual users don't really care for. I wrote a post on the reasons why I think Moments will fail (or at least not contribute meaningfully to user acquisition) [1], the main points being that Twitter users are not interested in curation, they are interested in sharing real-time information; and the tweet format is not good for curation -- it's designed for real-time information, not for the past. Curation implies context, and there's little context in 140 characters. In defending Moments others have said it's like Circa. The only problem with that argument is that Circa failed. Twitter needs to concentrate on product extensions that work with the real-time nature of the content. [1] http://newslines.org/blog/a-momentary-lapse-of-reason/ http://newslines.org/blog/a-momentary-lapse-of-reason/

meowface 11y ago
I agree. Curation isn't going to be that interesting to a large portion of users, I think. At least, it's not interesting to me. It might be more interesting if users are permitted to create and share their own curation "playlists" with others. Thompson's comments towards the end about how they should fix conversations and embedding are spot-on, though. I don't know why they didn't fix these things many years ago.
pbreit 11y ago
I'm somewhere between a power user and a newbie and I can't get even slightly interested in moments. Just not even close to what I'm looking for on Twitter.
Grue3 11y ago
I'm glad you actually linked to the examples of these "moments" that are supposed to save Twitter. I rarely use Twitter, so I never saw those. Well, I have to agree with you, those are crap. If this is the only thing that can save Twitter, Twitter is in great trouble.

meowface 11y ago

I agree. Curation isn't going to be that interesting to a large portion of users, I think. At least, it's not interesting to me. It might be more interesting if users are permitted to create and share their own curation "playlists" with others. Thompson's comments towards the end about how they should fix conversations and embedding are spot-on, though. I don't know why they didn't fix these things many years ago.

pbreit 11y ago

I'm somewhere between a power user and a newbie and I can't get even slightly interested in moments. Just not even close to what I'm looking for on Twitter.

Grue3 11y ago

I'm glad you actually linked to the examples of these "moments" that are supposed to save Twitter. I rarely use Twitter, so I never saw those. Well, I have to agree with you, those are crap. If this is the only thing that can save Twitter, Twitter is in great trouble.