I take a different view – Twitter is 'in trouble' because people expect it to be far more than it should be. It seems like it could be a really simple product

I take a different view – Twitter is 'in trouble' because people expect it to be far more than it should be. It seems like it could be a really simple product – an asynchronous method to receive small updates, recommendations and so on from people or organisations you are interested in. And I love that! I follow a good selection of people who share things I am interested in. There's nothing wrong with that, and there's an obvious path (through advertising) to monetisation. The problem is the wider perception of failure – the "Why isn't Twitter like Facebook!?!?" issue. Instead of a solid, well-delivered, sustainable product, we are witnessing a push for 'growth' and 'development' which I quite honestly think are exactly the opposite of what Twitter needs. What is frustrating me most about Twitter recently is: - Poor technical choices (the Mac app is shit and they have repeatedly fucked over the technical community) - Fucking-up of the core timeline concept (the introduction of the 'algorithmic timeline' will be the day I leave the platform) - Arbitrarily inserting tweets from people I don't follow, nuking the whole point of it I'd be much happier if they just slashed the headcount and built a sustainable business, but I guess that's not going to happen at this point.