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As someone who has been using Twitter since 2006, all of these changes make sense to me, and I'm happy about them. But I can't imagine them being anything but m
by zippergz 10y ago
As someone who has been using Twitter since 2006, all of these changes make sense to me, and I'm happy about them. But I can't imagine them being anything but more confusing to any casual user. I don't know what the right answer is, but making people remember more "rules" for what will make a Tweet show in peoples' timelines seems like a mistake.
- gdulli 10y agoSince the new algorithmic timeline you already have no way of knowing what shows up to who and when, it's up to them to decide who sees what based on inflating whatever engagement metric they think is important at a given time. (And who knows whatever other factors.)
- mhaymo 10y agoMy understanding is the rules are now simpler: A reply will not show up to your followers unless they follow the person being replied to, just as before. All other tweets will be shown. I seem to remember some celebrity being mocked because their first tweet was unintentionally not broadcast as it started with '@'. I wouldn't be surprised if many users are initially confused by this feature, so hopefully this change will make things easier.