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It's still happening. "The Verge spoke to two users who have been testing the new timeline for a few months. Neither particularly liked it. "I started to get u
by gdulli 11y ago
It's still happening.
"The Verge spoke to two users who have been testing the new timeline for a few months. Neither particularly liked it. "I started to get used to it but I still think that it is a terrible idea," Twitter user Robin Bonny told me. "It tears conversations apart, and it's really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion." Another user, Coady DiBiase, was only slightly more positive. "It's definitely nice in terms of catching up on things I might've missed, but it's a departure from the core idea of Twitter, so overall it complicates things.""
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10927874/twitter-algorithmic-timeline http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10927874/twitter-algorithmi...
- AznHisoka 11y agoIf you follow events you're most likely searching for it through a keyword or hashtags not following it in your timeline. Searches right now have a "live" option which is chronological order. Very few people should follow live events or live chats through their home timeline.
- gdulli 11y agoAnyone who cares what their friends and other people they've chosen to follow have to say over random strangers would want to use their timeline for that.
- askafriend 11y agoI definitely use my timeline to get a pulse of what's going on in the world from the people I follow. I want to hear what's on their mind specifically. I use search or hashtags sometimes, but more often than not I'm just looking through my feed and if I feel the need to dig deeper, I use search/hashtags. So yes, I do follow live events through my home timeline. It's important to note that I follow accounts like @NBA or @Warriors which predictably tweets during important live moments so I often get exactly what I'm looking for. It all depends on who you follow. I've curated my follow list to be perfect for my usage, so it works well for me. It really all depends on how you've curated your follow list, so I can see why you might think that people rarely follow live events from their feed, but I just don't think that's entirely true (of course, neither of us have the numbers to back either of our claims so we are merely speculating). Example: Warriors game is on. I fire up Twitter and look through my home feed and I get tweets from @Warriors play by play interspersed with reactions from other accounts that I follow like Bill Simmons or certain players or celebrities. It's a predictable experience that way and doesn't require search.
- viscanti 11y agoHashtags might be great for following along live with an event, but the discoverability is low if you can't see it already on your timeline. I find most hashtags through seeing a number of the people that I follow already using them.
- rednerrus 11y agoWhat?!? I'm perfectly capable of deciding which way I want to view my timeline.
- teaneedz 11y agoAlso, tweets from a dev and former PM this evening both demonstrate an unforgiveable level of dismissive arrogance toward user feedback. Twitter is clueless when it comes to UX.
- brandnewlow 11y agoLink?
- teaneedz 11y agohttps://twitter.com/bhcarpenter/status/695811814244773892 https://twitter.com/bhcarpenter/status/695811814244773892 https://twitter.com/ptr/status/696025411898085376 https://twitter.com/ptr/status/696025411898085376 read the timelines ... very interesting. the first is from a Twitter iOS dev, the second a former TL PM.