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I would love to have more privacy-focused features and more distance from the whole "everything's public" mantra -- following a user without anyone else knowing
by ihsw 10y ago
I would love to have more privacy-focused features and more distance from the whole "everything's public" mantra -- following a user without anyone else knowing, following a user for only a specific hashtag, private-only hashtags.
The whole "everything's public or everything's private" shtick just doesn't work for me.
- harryh 10y agoYou can create a private list and add people to that instead of following them publicly. The UX isn't the best, but it works.
- danielweber 10y agoA bad UX for privacy-critical features is worse than nothing. I don't want to be privately talking with someone and worry that it might be public to the world because I checked something wrong.
- harryh 10y agoOh ya, I hear you. All kinds of problems! Was just trying to be helpful for ihsw if they wanted to muddle through.
- CodeMage 10y agoHow I wish hashtags were actually useful. One of the things I hoped to get out of Twitter when I started using it was the ability to follow my favorite authors and hear more about their public appearances (e.g. book signing), progress on new books, release dates and such. Instead, I got "Facebook grade" stuff: look at this funny video, my spouse/child/buddy said something witty, here's some politics/activism in 140 characters, etc. Eventually, I lost interest in Twitter. This is a pervasive problem in social media: signal-to-noise ratio is awful.