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One thing I've wanted to see tried with Twitter is the idea that you have your typical stream of tweets (vertical), but that any tweet can have depth (by swipin
by prawn 11y ago
One thing I've wanted to see tried with Twitter is the idea that you have your typical stream of tweets (vertical), but that any tweet can have depth (by swiping horizontally). Your "my thoughts" example would indicate "1/8" automatically, updating as it was created.
Means that someone can read as usual, or delve for the full series of tweets. They could provide an indication to the writer of what percentage of people read to which depth, for example.
It could work well for presenting news articles (sentence or paragraph at a time), photo galleries/essays, slidedecks, stories, advertising, etc. Using a news article as an example, some people will be interested in just the headline, others in the first three bits, a few in the full story to its end.
- wf 11y agoThis is a really cool idea. It's a really simple solution to the same problem that would be really beautiful and easy to use on mobile especially. It doesn't quite reach the same depth, but I think it's a good way to start.
- prawn 11y agoAlways had it on my list to build a prototype of the concept and pitch it to media companies. Baffles me that they do so much work plugging Twitter handles for newsreaders, journalists, etc but then use a platform that hardly helps them.
- bhaumik 11y agoKind of like Moments but horizontal instead and right on the main feed.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoSomeone mocked that up a while back for a different app. I remember seeing the video for it come back up not long ago.
- visakanv 11y agoThis is exactly what Paddy Adams was talking about with Cards, and I agree strongly with both of you: https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web-d3f6ce8b843a https://medium.com/intercom-inside/why-cards-are-the-future-...
- diminish 11y ago- Cards seem quite similar to a carousel with maybe different movement options. - Twitter character limit is already exceeded by people writing somewhere and posting the screenshotted image of the text, which is awful. - 1/N.. N/N style can be expressed better by extended character limits, but that will decrease the number of tweets, which a public company may see as a deteriorating metric. Unfortunately Twitter has more usability problems than char limit in the main timeline user interface. - Viewing a conversation is pretty much confusing. You click on a tweet, it expands and it's not obvious how the conversation with a tree-branching structure proceeds - "Read later" is needed independent of "Like"
- mosburger 11y agoUgh. Marc Andreesen is the worst with this. I had to stop following him. Twitter is the wrong platform if you want to smear 1500 characters worth of information across multiple tweets.
- chirau 11y agoOnly Marc Andreesen can get away with it, he is good at establishing break points. I can easily follow. Vivek Wadhwa, on the other hand... his rants were a mess.